Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if "PHP is still relevant?" Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway... happy birthday!

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[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 39 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Everyone in this thread: PHP sucks because it was bad when I last used it 20 years ago.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I mean it does suck, but it sucks less than anything else we have.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah, i'd say java has been better than PHP overall

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's also 30 years old, old man!

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

A language usually doesn't become worse with time, at least if the devs do a good job at improving it.

There are cases of new languages that looked better but didn't become mainstream because the ecosystem requires time to grow (and adoption, which creates a vicious cycle because adoption requires ecosystem to already be there)

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