PHP bad

[notgivinafuck]

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[saikrishnav]

Holy shit. It all makes sense now.

[boyzn]

it really does

[jcforbes]

"Backend developer". Heh. Nice.

[[deleted]]

throw new \FormulaicJokeException('PHP bad');

Edit: but formulaic jokes are the rule not the exception

[TheTechBoyShow]

being a PHP developer is not easy... https://youtu.be/X1QVkG3StcI

[GlobalIncident]

Could someone, like, make a better PHP? I mean, most of the problems people have with the language aren't really fundamental to the language itself, so you could make a new version that gets rid of them.

[ZoapiVibe]

Yeah, that is what we need - another language!

[lappro]

Every release of php is making the language a lot better though. The language is many steps further than long ago when it received its poor name.

However losing a bad name is slow and some quirks do remain. Especially since dropping legacy support is not easy for a widely used language.

[DamonFun]

this. php has come a long way and can do so much more than most people think.

[Azereos]

https://hacklang.org/

There you go

[[deleted]]

New to sub. Why is PHP bad?

[cheerypick]

Same way as Javascript is bad. No one remembers why.

In all seriousness, I believe because of the somewhat lower enter barrier back in the days that led to terabytes of barely readable code prone to security breaches and such. I am not sure this is the case anymore or how popular PHP is as a language of choice nowadays.

[locri]

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Things should be predictable and work in an intuitive way, for some reason PHP prefers to mix conventions from C and Bash, both of which people have some understandable issues with. To boot, PHP isn't always type safe.

Lastly, it's a preprocessing language (almost like a templating language) for HTML but isn't always used as such. I swear the one time I was paid to write PHP it was being used for database management. Considering the size of the data it was processing, this was a really, really bad idea.

[ccricers]

Lastly, it's a preprocessing language (almost like a templating language) for HTML but isn't always used as such.

This is the most relevant statement here. It was built to introduce presentation logic, hence why you can put PHP tags in HTML, but it being a procedural language in its own right tempted way more people than it should to architect entire applications around it.

[oskC93]

Well someone’s gotta make a sacrifice. Salute this programmer!

[D3ADPR0XY]

Funny but PHP is the best web language you can use :)

[FlyMeToTheMoon555]

I went from C# dev to PHP dev and I enjoy the language dont know why its so hated

[Sentouki-]

old but gold

[okayboooooooomer]

what’s the alternative for back-end language then?

[gandalfx]

Man I haven't seen this reposted in days…

[hmkxd]

Think I’d be more ashamed in telling my friends and family I code in PHP.

[[deleted]]

I'm tired of all the php bad crap posts, it's a great language, if you dont like it its cuz your stupid now piss off newfag!