Comment on What's going on with PHP?

• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  angry Rust noises in the distance

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  • Slashme@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait, you can write web scripts in rust?

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lots of people write web sites in rust.

      I don’t think it’s a great choice. But it does beat php.

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• BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the problem with PHP. It’s quite easy to build something that works. It’s quite another to build something that works and is secure, scales well, is maintainable, etc. The thing is that ‘it works’ is something that people see immediately. Those other things they only get to experience when it’s too late.

  This is compounded by the fact that because it’s so easy it attracts a lot of inexperienced developers who don’t even consider things like security. Add to that that the language is full of footguns.

  That’s not to say it’s impossible to build good apps in PHP, but that is despite the language, not because of it. It takes experience, knowledge and discipline to write something secure and maintainable in PHP. Something a lot of PHP users don’t have.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because it works.

  As evident from this week troubles, no it doesn’t.

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yea it does. Every language has bugs, every program has bugs. The measure of a language is not does it have bugs its how does the governing body respond to problems.

    You could have the best language, fast to run, fast to build, uses low resources, but I’d the governing body responds to bug reports saying “well don’t do it then” or “user error” its adoption is not likely to happen.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Every language has bugs, every program has bugs.

      Not like php, no.

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