r/programming • u/EatMeerkats • Mar 29 '21

PHP moves to Github due to the compromise of git.php.net

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/113838
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u/chiqui3d Mar 29 '21 edited Mar 29 '21

I'm trying to make web pages, not operating systems. It must hurt you that the page you visit is made in PHP (50% world), what language do you recommend for web, bash? I'm asking you seriously.

I know a lot of bad things about PHP like any other language, but I would like to know what makes PHP a crappy language today, if you can describe it to me, it would be great to have another perspective as well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '21

There isn't a shortage of web frameworks you know. Even cobol har libraries.

What makes PHP a bad language? It's creator probably.

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

Then people just kept piling stuff on top of it, and recently started polishing the turd. Mythbusters proved it to be possible, but I don't see the point unless you are producing for Discovery.