I wrote my very first webapp in PHP when I was a teenager, and my first dozen paid apps shortly thereafter as a consultant. PHP was a lot worse then, but still has a lot of the same fundamental issues that it won’t ever be able to escape without becoming a different language.
I think it’s a good first tinkering language for people around that age: sort of like BASIC, but for the web.
I am glad PHP is still around; it is a very useful signal on the resume or CV of someone who uses it a lot.
It’s sort of like c# in that regard (exception granted for vertical-specific devs who work professionally to ship commercial apps with Unity), or Visual Basic before it.
Same goes for heavy Java outside of Google/Amazon backend, or outside of Android.
Most of these people are desktop Windows users by choice, too. It’s a very specific type of techie. Perhaps one day I should make an ishkur-style taxonomy. :D
I think this is also why almost all forum software is written in PHP.
I think it’s a good first tinkering language for people around that age: sort of like BASIC, but for the web.
I am glad PHP is still around; it is a very useful signal on the resume or CV of someone who uses it a lot.
It’s sort of like c# in that regard (exception granted for vertical-specific devs who work professionally to ship commercial apps with Unity), or Visual Basic before it.
Same goes for heavy Java outside of Google/Amazon backend, or outside of Android.
Most of these people are desktop Windows users by choice, too. It’s a very specific type of techie. Perhaps one day I should make an ishkur-style taxonomy. :D
I think this is also why almost all forum software is written in PHP.