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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] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've done some embedded rust and liked it. I imagine it would be miserable for Web dev though. I haven't checked out what frameworks were around to make things easy so maybe I'm off base. What's the devex like currently?

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

I think it targets wasm, so probably not too terrible as long as you stick to what that can handle, and I'm sure it'll be great for a purely backend service/code.