Re:Crystal 0.25.1 released
by nicoburns on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:03PM
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It's interesting that everyone's still using rails in silicon valley. Here in the UK, Laravel (PHP) and Django (python) are both more popular than Rails for new projects. But I hear that PHP isn't popular at all in the US?
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PHP in the U.S., especially in the startup world, is seen as "oh, you develop in third world countries". That's the perception these days unfortunately.
That said, I was an avid PHP developer in the U.S. about 10-15 years ago and I always liked the language. There's just no one learning PHP anymore since all the kids just learn js, and no one trying out "hipster" languages like ruby/crystal/go/python/elixr/d/nim/rust/etc is going to try crusty old PHP.
I will say though that PHP, without any frameworks, is probably my favorite thing to develop a simple standalone site specifically because it lets you break all conventions and just output some damn content possibly with some simple logic involved and without using classes/mvc/etc.