The funniest ones are when there’s like 20 shouting at first, but gradually they let it go and move on until there just 2 people left on thread abusing each other .
On the server-side PHP is used by 76.8% of all websites (a large chunk of that being WordPress). It is not going anywhere, soon. Looking at this statistics, nothing else seems to be even in the same league from a pure usage point of view.
I have yet to see a reason why it should change. Serious question: What is the disadvantage of using the tried and tested PHP8 compared to the alternatives, if you already know PHP?
Poor performance, execution model limitations, lack of static typing (although they seem to be working on that), and general legacy cruft.
Don’t compare PHP to Node, Ruby or Python, they also have problems. I think Go is currently the best choice for a web backend; an objective evaluation of PHP and Go would certainly put Go ahead. If you know PHP, you can pick up Go in a day or two, so I don’t think that’s a great reason to keep using PHP either.
Usage statistics are a highly misleading, software projects take several years to develop and a majority will fail. Looking at current usage tells you the most popular choice from 5 years ago, not today. Over 90% of video games published in the last 5-10 years use Unity or UE4, but these probably aren’t the best choices today.
I think Go is currently the best choice for a web backend; an objective evaluation of PHP and Go would certainly put Go ahead. If
Yes for performance running code, for performance as in “developer time” PHP is way faster. Go is solid but developer take more time implementing stuff with it. Use PHP for everything business related except for that one or two cases where you really need the performance that Go provides and where it is worth the extra dev time.
Serious Answer: PHP in itself is not that bad, despite some discussable decisions in function naming and arguments order to name a few. The biggest problem, is that it has a settings file describing how it works (php.ini) and that sh*t will bite you in the rear when you move apps from server to server, where all the libs are different etc… PHP never works out of the box when moving something on a new server, that is the worst part of the language.
Maybe the issue in your example isn’t related to “how bad PHP is” but is to “how bad the code you’re referring to is”. Never had those kind of issues and yes obviously you’ve to know what extensions an application is using, but once again, modern PHP applications usually use composer as dependency manager and will gave those specified inside the project.
Good on you to not have to maintain legacy code (15years+). Also, as a comparison, with JAVA, I have a legacy JAVA 1.5 to maintain, as far as you have the runtime, that stuff works, and that’s it. This is how it should be.
Easy example. Have they fixed file upload behavior yet? Do they store the entire file in memory by default instead of chunking it and storing it as it comes in?
If not it’s like the worst memory usage of any language possible.
If you have to go change the php.ini to adjust file upload sizes, it’s not really moving forward and is decades behind other languages.
File upload behavior is actually determined by your web server (unless you’re launching PHP in listening mode) so apache is probably who you want to blame here.
Other languages behind reverse proxies from apache https or nginx do not have the same memory hit. You can still blame php. Not my fault they tied their language to the webserver in a way that uses tons of extra memory.
Easy example. Have they fixed file upload behavior yet? Do they store the entire file in memory by default instead of chunking it and storing it as it comes in?
Are you in 1995? PHP dynamically decides how to manage uploaded files, it will generally store a few MB on RAM and move it to disk after that point. It also support streams so the backend can take the incoming data live and do stuff with it without storing it first as usual in the classical model. There are also plenty of higher level solutions to deal with chunked uploads, mobile clients disconnecting such as tus.io that are used by large companies like Vimeo.
That was my favorite part of Twitter - following updates from non-human accounts… A lost teddy bear recovered by airport staff making its way back to the kid across Canada. An escaped frog from a county fair. The Toronto raccoon. A bear that didn’t want to come down from a city tree for a long-ass time. Good times.
Its also because big ass herbivores are actually really dangerous.
Sharks don’t actually like the taste of humans because we’re a little too lean. So they won’t actively hunt you unless they’re starving. There’s only really one reason why a shark is out to get you. There’s many reasons a herbivore will mess you up.
A big herbivore will fk you up because he’s having a bad day and you got too close. Or its mating season and everyone is potential competition. Or they mistook you for a predator cause of their poor eyesight. Or a bird flew away nearby and one of them got startled and now you’re in a path of a stampede.
Sharks may also bite you by accident, because they mistake you for a seal.
How dangerous a bull is also depends on his age. While getting older he will start to lose the fear/respect for humans. This will get to a point where being alone with him is a literal death sentence.
I’ve been noticing how on Star Trek, a lot of ground settlements have no doors. I suspect this is because in the 24th century, mankind has finally given in to the cats’ demand to have the door open so they have the option of going in or out without a barrier.
In reality; it has much more to do with set design and planet-of-the-week turnover (many sets slewed reused or recycled. Doors complicated that)
In universe it’s because the federation is an idealized version of the ‘60’s era counter culture movement and doors just aren’t necessary when everyone just gets along with everyone else ….
Them comm badges probably served as key fobs. Or access control in some form.
And that presupposes a need to lock the door…
Which supposes that not everyone gets along.
Funny how that works, lol. In any case there’s a lot of things in the UFP that just wouldn’t work IRL… like, how many people you know are just gonna be a barista? (As seen in the voyager episode where harry was never on Voyager or whatever,)
Or the jazz place T’pol mentions in Enterprise (and Picard’s family farm…)
All that work being done for…, what? The love of work?
All that work being done for…, what? The love of work?
Loads of people would do just that, out of curiousity keep themselves busy. When you don’t need the income to live, you got to keep yourself busy somehow.
I for one don’t have the time to work with all that is interesting to me to spend time on, but alas, I don’t have the amount of cash to not have to work. That’s why I sell my time and knowledge for a limited amount of time in the week so I can explore all other interests.
Yeah. So, they just go and plug buttons to get people their synthetic coffee day in… day out?
Or put in enough effort to grow enough grapes for a sizeable wine label?
And this ignores the dozens of menial tasks- repair techs, cleaners, security guards. “Retail” joints… strip joints.
Yes people would go do some hobbies, but I doubt very much that there’s enough people interested in… industrial cleaning… to keep society running. And you really don’t want a part timer doing surgery or whatever
Without fear of unemployment that sort of thing might be stint work vaguely similar to jury duty. In order to partake in the product of society you are expected to spend a year working 20 hours a week as a tech or whatever, if society needs it they will find a way to provide it without capital demanding a return on investment.
Yeah this hypothetical society would have to choose between mopping floors and living in squalor. Hopefully the moppers won’t be coerced under threat of exposure or starvation.
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