Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
by phikai on Friday March 22, 2019 @10:19AM
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THIS... elebenty billion %. The breaking changes of PHP upgrades make the hosting life a nightmare. It's so easy in the vacuum of a single developer with a single application to think everyone should keep up to date, but the reality is most of the PHP sites on the internet are owned by non-technical people.
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Re:80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
by sowhatquestion on Saturday March 23, 2019 @01:21AM
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> It's so easy in the vacuum of a single developer with a single application to think everyone should keep up to date, but the reality is most of the PHP sites on the internet are owned by non-technical people
"Non-technical" people who don't plan for maintenance costs to their software (including maintenance to keep up with dependencies like PHP) don't get a ton of sympathy from me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯