I don’t know if it’s due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012…). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.

Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?

    • treadful@lemmy.zip
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’ve done some embedded rust and liked it. I imagine it would be miserable for Web dev though. I haven’t checked out what frameworks were around to make things easy so maybe I’m off base. What’s the devex like currently?

      • psudo@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it targets wasm, so probably not too terrible as long as you stick to what that can handle, and I’m sure it’ll be great for a purely backend service/code.