Is PHP rising from the dead?
Unbelievable yet true... PHP is trending on social media.
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Im a big fan of PHP’s simplicity, writing in it is a joyful to me and I barley ever end up stuck or limited by it. Especially because its so easy to extend.
It has been built for the web, but I hope with newer version and fingers crossed proper threading support at some point in the future, it can become a more general purpose language, and also be accepted as such.
This is kinda a shameless plug, but you can do things with PHP besides websites, apis and command line apps. Ive been working hard on bringing realtime games to PHP:
github.com/phpgl/php-towerdefense
Thanks Mario for sharing your Github page on PHP! :)
Wow! Thank you a lot for sharing this, really interesting. 🤩
And lovely project!
Thanks Fabian, well written article on PHP! :)
Thank you, appreciate your feedback! :)
Great that a mainly javascript developer sees the value of PHP as a modern language!
But I'm sorry to read you are using Wordpress as an entry into the PHP community.
Wordpress doesn't use any of the standards that are common in the PHP world.
Their composer file is only for development purposes, which means they don't use any of the knowledge that is contained by the packages provided by the community.
It recommends a version, 7.4, that was end of live november 2022.
And there are many more flaws with Wordpress from a developers view.
Try Sulu, Statamic, Drupal if you want a free solution. If you want more simplicity and are willing to pay try OctoberCMS.
These CMS applications are more enjoyable as a developer to work with.
This is by no means a fanboy comment against Wordpress. I just dislike the way Wordpress demonstrates the use of PHP without most of the good things that are in the new versions. It is like using XMLHttpRequest instead of fetch in javascript.
PHP + Laravel + React is my current stack.
However, for backend, I am also interested in using Node.js (esp with Express), Go aka Golang (with Echo, Fiber or Gin or without framework), Java (with Spring or JEE) and C# + .Net. Currently I am learning them.
Awesome tech stack! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
My tech stack is mainly JS + React/Next.js + Go. But I've been working as a WordPress developer for the past year or so. My experience with PHP has been great so far but I think PHP development really shines when developing with Laravel.
Looks like such an awesome framework to work with! 🚀
Definitely need to get into Laravel in the future.
Almost, you missed the "P". PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor - a recursive acronym.
That's correct, of course! Thank you for the heads-up, appreciate it!
I am expecting PHP will adopt Promise, Async-Await like in Javascript. And... generics too, like in Java or C#.