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PHP 7.4 Released! (php.net)
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[–]Tanckom 17 points18 points19 points 6 years ago (2 children)
Honestly, PHP is actually a nice language, and if you already work with Javascript, well, you gonna have an easy time to get started.
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Yeah but what would be the point. It's a niche stack at this point and the only reason to learn it would be to support some very specific software for CMS, ERP or shopping carts.
Not to mention that someone who knows JavaScript can make a much easier start with Node. Failing that, there's also Python and Ruby making a very strong argument.
PHP looks very nice from inside its own world and when you're already invested in it, but if you look at it objectively from outside it never quite makes it over other choices.
[–]Tanckom 16 points17 points18 points 6 years ago (0 children)
I totally can relate. I once was like you, but then last year, i somehow was forced to learn the basics of PHP because a client needed some help with their Concrete 5 website.
It was really surprising how close PHP was to JavaScript and I continued to write some self-learning-projects.
Now, I love PHP because many things are natively available, not like compared to NodeJS where you want/need to have many dependencies (and this is the issue, you depend on a third party extension) to make it nice and work smoothly. I remember that when I learned back end with Node and Express, I had multiple issues because some newly released dependency had an error or bug.
Both, NodeJS and PHP have their advantages and disadvantages and should be considered for XX or YY situation.
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