PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter

Re:PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter by tolliator on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @03:17AM (#3821144)

Are you serious? PHP is not "tray full of old rusty instruments". Please give me one concrete example what is wrong with a blog running on PHP. Or a small store? How is the END result differ between say Magento or something running on Django? Could you tell the difference? No, you could not. And while the PHP version would have been up and ready, you would still try to figure out how to properly run WSGI server in shared hosting.

Good luck with your endeavors.

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Re:PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter by Joeboy on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @05:07AM (#3821387)

> Please give me one concrete example what is wrong with a blog running on PHP. Or a small store? How is the END result differ between say Magento or something running on Django? Could you tell the difference? No, you could not.

I think I could, pretty often at least:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=wordpress+%22hacked+by%22

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Re:PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter by ceejayoz on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @10:53AM (#3822407)

Right, because no other language is hackable.

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1...

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Re:PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter by Spoom on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @11:01AM (#3822449)

Should languages be required to ensure the security of the code produced for them?

IMHO this is more of a complaint about the security of Wordpress, not the PHP core. People love to bring up phpBB or Wordpress in these discussions, but there are many, many more systems using large-scale PHP about whose security you just don't hear, because they are coded by professionals who know how to produce secure code in PHP.

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Re:PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter by Devilboy on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @04:16AM (#3821288)

> PHP is not "tray full of old rusty instruments".

Clearly that's a matter of opinion.

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