I don’t know if it’s due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012…). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.
Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?
Modern PHP is quite performant and nice to work with and it’s still improving! Also frameworks like Laravel is very established.
When comparing the time when I use PHP and JavaScript, I love the simplicity and versatility of JavaScript but PHP’s strongly typed (with runtime support) and object oriented language often make more sense imo.
I think the strong benefit of using JavaScript for backend comes down to being able to have unified full-stack codebases, one language fits all kind of thing.
man, PHP has come a long way!