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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by jimbokun on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:14AM (#50367702)
Yes, I never totally understood why the PHP execution model wasn't copied by frameworks in other dynamic languages like Ruby and Python.

PHP is hard to beat for development velocity. Edit a file, refresh a page in your browser, see the results.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by evilduck on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:49AM (#50368261)
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by win311fwg on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:52PM (#50369116)
Ish. I remember when the earliest versions of Rails used a CGI runner. Development didn't carry on long before application startup time became so horrendously slow that it was no longer viable.

Now that people are back to writing their applications in languages that aren't as slow as Ruby they have often moved back to the CGI model, now branded as "serverless".

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