Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
by busterarm on Monday January 18, 2016 @02:55PM
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I'm primarily a Ruby developer, but my current gig has me working exclusively in PHP (and worse yet, Wordpress). PHP as a language is actually pretty stellar these days. There are things about it that I dislike, but there has been a lot of recent work put in to improving the language. I'm always finding nice features.
Really the place that PHP is lacking is on the tooling/ops side of the projects built on top of it. A lot of what I have to work with still seems to be 15 years old. That said, it's getting better and other peoples' preferred tools have their share of problems as well.
Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
by rawfan on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:53AM
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> A lot of what I have to work with still seems to be 15 years old.
Like what?
I'd prefer it to be written in something else, too, but - the Phacility team are ex-Facebook developers. If anyone knows how to use PHP, it's them. They built their own, extensive web application framework on top of it (which is a remarkable achievement for itself). Phabricator is one of those rare examples that you can, in fact, write excellent code in PHP.
On top of that, they're running a bug bounty with generous payouts: https://hackerone.com/phabricator