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Re:Advice to Young Web Developers by ehutch79 on Friday June 19, 2020 @12:02PM (#23575781)
PHP wasn't good, fine maybe, though I understand it's better now.

it was kind of slow, and all the functions were inconsistent, and had a lot of foot-guns. It was easier to write more robust code and model-view-controller code in other languages. (not that it was impossible in php)

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Re:Advice to Young Web Developers by freehunter on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:13PM (#23579836)
It’s hard to make the claim that PHP is a bad language and also claim that very similar complaints don’t also apply to Javascript. They’re both languages defined by their popularity in spite of how poor the language actually is.
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Re:Advice to Young Web Developers by ehutch79 on Friday June 19, 2020 @07:21PM (#23579890)
javascript is a dumpster fire.

unfortunately it's the only actually viable language in the browser.

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