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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] 1 points 1 year ago

I went from PHP lover to PHP hater about a decade ago. I have to admit, reading some of the Kbin code has made me hate it a little less. It's nice not to see include() and require() everywhere. It's also nice to see some type safety features as that was the biggest reason I moved on. For anything much bigger than a simple script, even if you think you won't, you're going to struggle without it.

It's still not my first preference (and, let's face it, most of this is preference) but it looks a lot better.