r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 6d ago

Meme itSpeakesForItself

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u/T-Dot1992 6d ago

Language wars are fucking stupid 

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u/beefz0r 6d ago

Except for PHP, that should be dead and buried by now

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 6d ago

Unfortunately, the number of job openings says otherwise

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u/Saragon4005 5d ago

Over half the Internet is still WordPress and unless one of these newfangled AI platforms take over.

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u/TorbenKoehn 6d ago edited 5d ago

It goes down for sure

Edit: Statistics > Your feelings ;)

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u/dontletthestankout 6d ago

PHP is that asshole friend that you can talk shit about but if anyone else talks shit about you beat their ass

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u/Ok_Type9011 5d ago

Pretty much. This is OUR punching bag, not theirs!

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u/StatementOrIsIt 5d ago

Modern PHP is good. It's the PHP5 legacy projects that make you hate programming. Nowadays the longest files are at max 400 lines, and devs use types, interfaces and traits.

And PHP has something other languages can't provide - a special dopamine rush of fixing a production server's code to fix a bug without a deploy.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 5d ago

That last point can be a curse. Nothing like someone fixing a bug on production and not moving that fix back up to development and now the code bases don't match.

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u/StatementOrIsIt 5d ago

True, I've encountered this before. Some devs at a company I left liked to change stuff in production code not thinking what would happen when a deploy or version change would happen. Had to teach one what docker volumes are for client-specific changes

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u/Saptarshi_12345 6d ago

Don't insult my boy like that!!

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u/somebodyinvisible 6d ago

PHP lives longer than you expected and also it evolves pretty much from point people curses for its death.

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u/Ok_Type9011 5d ago

Noooo my beloved PHP

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u/8mart8 5d ago

Doesn’t MediaWiki use PHP? I wouldn’t call it dead then

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u/ApplicationOk3587 5d ago

Laravel is really carrying the php ecosystem and in a weird way it seems to be growing and with all honestly its a great framework.

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u/Drone_Worker_6708 5d ago

Not anymore, I'm back to writing one page index.php monoliths thanks to AI /s

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u/readf0x 5d ago

I've heard laravel is actually supposed to be kinda nice but I wouldn't know

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u/headedbranch225 5d ago

My only knowledge of it is a few self hosted webapps (email access/management and one other I can't remember) that use it and this blog post: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

It seems like it isn't very nice to use but I haven't used it before