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Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if “PHP is still relevant?” Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway… happy birthday!

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
    17·
    10 days ago

    Replaced the P in LAMP with Python when I started building webpages again a few years ago, and never looked back. Such a vastly more pleasant experience.

    • petersr@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 days ago

      I am an advocate for LKPPR (Linux, Kubernetes, Postgres, Python, React). Doesn’t roll off the tongue that well.

        • petersr@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 days ago

          What’s your alternative for web development?

          Server side rendered content can only get you so far.

          • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            Webassembly frameworks.

            Blazor! But only because I’m a dotnet guy professionally.

            Yew? I’m not good enough with Rust to have tried it.

            • PolarKraken@programming.devEnglish
              1·
              9 days ago

              Dotnet professionally and using lemmy.ml socially is hilarious to me and (sincerely) entirely consistent. Makes perfect sense, I just find it funny. (I’m not being sarcastic or attacking you, might not be clear lol)

              • lad@programming.devEnglish
                2·
                9 days ago

                I’ve toyed with WASM, creating a simple sudoku page, and it did take an empty page, added all the buttons, and then changed them upon user interaction.

                I think, I also heard of the DOM modification limitations, but it’s not a hard barrier afaik, there are just some cases where it can’t

                But still, doing something in (pure) WASM looks way harder than needed to me

          • Billegh@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 days ago

            Right? That’s the mindset that brought us asp, jsp, and php. JS might be obnoxious, but it’s the only viable client-side right now.