Subj : Re: is PHP a neccessary evil?
To   : Bob Roberts
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Jan 20 2021 12:42 pm

  Re: Re: is PHP a neccessary evil?
  By: Bob Roberts to Jason on Fri Jan 15 2021 05:56 pm

 BR> I read once that Facebook was written in PHP, and over time it was too
 BR> much work to change it, so they came up with a way to compile PHP so it
 BR> executed faster. I'm not sure if they are still using it today -- I would
 BR> suppose not. 

 BR> But PHP has always seemed very powerful to me, and can do most anything.
 BR> However since it's now 2021, I don't think it's much in favor anymore. It
 BR> seems these days all the kids want to code in Rust or Go, or Python for
 BR> DevOps. 

I worked with PHP at a job I started in 2003, and worked with it for a couple years there before we moved onto a different project.  PHP did seem powerful, and later, PHP got object-oriented support, which made it even better.  I did think PHP had some disorganization, such as having multiple functions that did basically the same thing, but I thought it was a pretty good language.

Very recently, I've discovered the Python Flask framework for server-side web development, and it seems fairly good.  It supports a type of messenging that lets you send messages with data back & forth between the server side & client side (i.e., JavaScript in the web browser), which is fairly cool.  But I've heard that's not specific to Python though, and it seems other server-side web languages support that now too.

Nightfox

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