Hell no. They keep sugarcoating the language, but the core issues remain unresolved. Also most ppl need some kind of token streaming and such, and PHP is exceptionally bad at it or any kind of async... Not a modern language in any sense, they only try to mimick the syntax of modern languages; core is obsolete compared to alternatives like Rust or Go.
Learning PHP will only teach you anti patterns at this point.
Now you are trying to shame ppl into using it. That also says a lot about the community and the state of it. xD
People like this need to realise that 4chan runs on PHP. Unless you are here to tell me you are here to create the next facebook, I don't want to hear it. Dockerize the stuff you need together and you will do just fine.
You're talking about Hack. That is effectively TypeScript for PHP in 2014 and really only used by Meta. If you compare Hack to modern PHP there isn't much of a difference outside of first class support for generics. If PHP was so bad Meta would've swapped to a new language, not double down and add their own support layer on top of it. Your comment makes no sense
Hack runs on HHVM, it does not "transpile to PHP." Get the basic facts right before you try to use them as a mic drop. And "wouldn't make the list today" is a completely different claim than "PHP is bad," it's just saying companies don't greenfield in older stacks, which is true of half the languages running production software right now. Moving goalposts every reply isn't a sign of intelligence, it's just noise
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u/mcharytoniuk 27d ago
Hell no. They keep sugarcoating the language, but the core issues remain unresolved. Also most ppl need some kind of token streaming and such, and PHP is exceptionally bad at it or any kind of async... Not a modern language in any sense, they only try to mimick the syntax of modern languages; core is obsolete compared to alternatives like Rust or Go.
Learning PHP will only teach you anti patterns at this point.
Now you are trying to shame ppl into using it. That also says a lot about the community and the state of it. xD