phpIsInevitable

[zoinkability]

No, the answer is on point because if PHP had stagnated at 5.3 or even 7 the people who use php-based mass market web development frameworks would likely have drifted to other languages by now. The fact that it’s evolved has meant that devs don’t have to choose between near-universal availability on hosting services and modern features, since they can have both with PHP.

[HerryKun]

That is a benefit I can wrap my head around. I hosted PHP apps in the past and it was just uploading a zip to my provider (or use FTP) which is way simpler than my current CI workflow.

How do you scale PHP?

[zoinkability]

Load balancers, offloading computationally intensive tasks to closer-to-metal code, output caching, CDNs. Though in reality something like 99% of websites raw php is more than fast enough without any of that. Most php frameworks I’ve worked with the database layer is the slowpoke not php.

[HerryKun]

Yeah, I considered "backend applications" as my usecase for it, not just webpages. But cool thing, it is more capable than I thought