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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 36 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 14 points 18 hours ago

It's still bad nowadays, and it's the main language used on pretty much every system of several state level secretaries in Brazil. My colleagues work with it daily (I don't program, thankfully) and they're not exactly fond of it. Legacy systems, man

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