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Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know if it's due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012...). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.

Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think the challenge arises when your hobby project gets funding and thousands of people start using it... But at that point the codebase is likely locked into many previously made decisions.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. People really should be allowed to make things in whatever technology they prefer, but at the same time I can't help but wince when I see infrastructure such as Mastodon or Matrix Synapse being written in slow inefficient languages like Ruby and Python.

It's really bad for the strength of decentralized networks like Fedi when I have a friend telling me "I wish I didn't set up Mastodon because my tiny instance needs multiple gigabytes of RAM". I might have set up a Matrix homeserver myself by now if Synapse wasn't Python and notoriously slow. I immediately discarded Kbin as a choice (among other reasons) because it's PHP and Lemmy is Rust.

Always easy to say "hindsight is 20/20", but still.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well you can’t know what you don’t know. So if you start a project and foresee thousands of people use it in scalable manner - yeah you’ll use something faster but then your project might die before getting “in the wild”… but if you’re just nerding out with your friends you just want to have fun… and then suddenly thousands of people want to use your project… there’s just no winning