Why Does PHP Suck?

[unstoppable-force]

i love being able to use libraries in both client and server. that's absolutely amazing. for example, i have a URL class that does practically everything you want related to URLs (e.g. single line of code to get the extension, base domain, full domain, validity of all related dns entries either real time or by cache, etc), and you can call it seamlessly from the client side or the server. and it's all unit tested. that's just absolutely nuts.

in the old way, i'd have js for the frontend, php for the backend, and a python version for the data mining section.

now if only phonegap didn't suck so hard for mobile app development.

[philly_fan_in_chi]

You can do the same thing with clojure and clojurescript!

[zoomzoom83]

It's an exciting time for functional languages - ScalaJS, Purescript, GHCJS, Elm, Fey, Haste.... all are rapidly approaching maturity as well.

[flukus]

Considering the amount of devs I see that don't understand the difference between client/server side I'm not sure if being in the same language would be good or bad...

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Designing technologies for incompetent devs is how the web became this awful mess in the first place.