I know it sounds childish but PHP is lame as hell same as java. Rust or go would have definitely been a cooler choice. I mean PHP gets the job done, but still....
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As a single developer taking on a passion project you go with what you know.
Also it must have been near impossible to have foreseen the insane explosion of popularity that has happened here the last few days.
Even then if you build something for passion you choose something that make you happy to use, however esoteric or impractical that may be to others, or how it would be perceived. Most probably it was never thought to be exposed in such a massive way, and certainly not as soon after the project was started (we're talking month(s) here).
Anyhow, for this project from the looks of it it is working fantastic.
Personally I've not used PHP for years but now I'm actually intrigued to take a new look at it.
Modern PHP is quite performant and nice to work with and it's still improving! Also frameworks like Laravel is very established.
When comparing the time when I use PHP and JavaScript, I love the simplicity and versatility of JavaScript but PHP's strongly typed (with runtime support) and object oriented language often make more sense imo.
I think the strong benefit of using JavaScript for backend comes down to being able to have unified full-stack codebases, one language fits all kind of thing.
PHP's strongly typed and object oriented language
man, PHP has come a long way!
Modern PHP is supposedly pretty alright but yes I was surprised and a bit disappointed, I would have liked to contribute but I'm not gonna touch PHP in my free time lol.
This is similar to how I feel.
PHP is pain to developers Jerry!
In my opinion, only the most elite (in all the wrong ways) people care how you build your app.
PHP has flaws, sure[1]. But unless you are working on the app itself (or again, you are horribly elitist) it does not matter.
What matters is that the app is good. If the app is good, it doesn't matter that its done in PHP, what matters is that it works.
EDIT: I guess it also matters if you're selfhosting the app.
[1] I think PHP is overhated. As a stateless language it lacks a lot of complex features (and thus, admittedly, might be questionable for a project as large and complex as kbin), it has some questionable design decisions, but it's really not as bad as people make it out to be.
There's a sister project at my work that still uses PHP. It did surprise me, but it's very well written and easy to maintain. I reckon php will be around for a while yet.
@WatTyler No really. I have seen that PhP developers are moving to other languages, but at the same time I have been involved in new projects using it (I'm not a PhP developer).