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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by wlll on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:16AM (#16868048)
PHP is crap. It's actively hard to write good code in it. Not good code like SOLID or pretty code that's self documenting, it's hard to write code that's not going to break in unique and interesting ways.

Sure, you can knock up a contact form in it really quickly, but that ease of use hides significant dangers.

I've programmed it, it's a terrible language.

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Re:We saved $50k/year with a Go microservice coded in a hack... by cleong on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:34PM (#16870323)
This might have been true 10 years ago with versions like PHP 4. But remember many companies have invested a lot into PHP including Facebook. In the newest version of PHP what you said cannot apply with a type system, OOP features like traits, class inheritance etc.
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