Re:A look at modern PHP
by dgb23 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:02AM
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I really like languages like Rust and Go and they certainly are good languages and I would love to use either on a regular basis as a freelance webdev.
But with two recent projects I‘ve worked on neither would be even feasible.
In one there was a requirement to generate custom designed PDFs, and in the other I had to implement authentication via SAML.
Other language ecosystems that would be feasible in these cases: Nodejs, .NET, Java or Clojure because it can live in either of those.
PHP doesn’t just have mature, battle tested and well documented web-frameworks. It also has libraries which do complex things that are very unattractive like PDF generation/manipulation and complicated standards like SAML.
But with two recent projects I‘ve worked on neither would be even feasible.
In one there was a requirement to generate custom designed PDFs, and in the other I had to implement authentication via SAML.
Other language ecosystems that would be feasible in these cases: Nodejs, .NET, Java or Clojure because it can live in either of those.
PHP doesn’t just have mature, battle tested and well documented web-frameworks. It also has libraries which do complex things that are very unattractive like PDF generation/manipulation and complicated standards like SAML.