Re:Reactive Clojure: A web language
by InitialBP on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:25PM
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Regardless of whether PHP solved this particular problem, it also caused a lot of its own due to numerous security issues and documentation that encouraged unsafe use of libraries, until recently.
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Re:Reactive Clojure: A web language
by mjburgess on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:31PM
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The pragmatism of rasmus, and how bemused he was that people were using his language to program (vs. template), meant that the BDFL was not a great advocate of the PHP model.
The model is this: run-once-and-die + build-it-on-the-server.
Those two ideas are extremely powerful, a little like immutability, in that they rule out a huge number of issues. The issue with PHP wasn't this model which became associated with the morass of amateurs using the language. A shame.