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PHP: A fractal of bad design (2012) (eev.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

ha this ancient, out of date piece. i guess its good for pointing out most of this nonsense was solved for in the last 12 years

use modern frameworks, practices and versions and php is not a problem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A lot of it is still true today

use a modern everything, and, ...

Or use a better language

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Exactly.

Also, besides the fact that over this time PHP transformed into a whole different language, most of the concepts the author is dissatisfied with, are just nuances.

There are a few valid points as well.

Overall, if I were to use a scripting language for web development, I would 100% pick PHP, as that's the best suited language for the job. Nowadays, however, I go with Rust because I wanna squeeze out as much performance as I reasonably can.

For single use scripts and smaller tools on my desktop, I used Python in the past, and then I learned Ruby. I'm sticking with Ruby for these use cases.