It keeps getting declared dead, but then, keeps rising from the grave.
I wrote PHP for a long time (more than 20 years). Many, many thousands of lines of it. I got fairly good at it. I wrote my last big application in it about a year and a half ago (PHP 7.3, I think). It's a great application, but no one would want it, as it does the same thing lots of big SaaS does.
Except one single person wrote it, from soup to nuts (no dependencies), in about six months -part time- (it was sort of a "thesis" project for me, as I was re-learning my engineering discipline), and it's quite good quality. So I guess PHP is good for something. I just open-sourced the application, and more or less sent it out to stud.
That said, I never really liked the language, and am glad to have seen the back of it. I write full-time in Swift, nowadays, and would be thrilled to never write PHP ever again.
Despite all the hate, though, it's a perfectly good language; especially with all the stuff added in 7+.
It keeps getting declared dead, but then, keeps rising from the grave.
I wrote PHP for a long time (more than 20 years). Many, many thousands of lines of it. I got fairly good at it. I wrote my last big application in it about a year and a half ago (PHP 7.3, I think). It's a great application, but no one would want it, as it does the same thing lots of big SaaS does.
Except one single person wrote it, from soup to nuts (no dependencies), in about six months -part time- (it was sort of a "thesis" project for me, as I was re-learning my engineering discipline), and it's quite good quality. So I guess PHP is good for something. I just open-sourced the application, and more or less sent it out to stud.
https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...
I discuss my design methodology for the project here: https://medium.com/chrismarshallny/forensic-design-documenta...
That said, I never really liked the language, and am glad to have seen the back of it. I write full-time in Swift, nowadays, and would be thrilled to never write PHP ever again.
Despite all the hate, though, it's a perfectly good language; especially with all the stuff added in 7+.