Oct 22, 2026, 4:24 PM@mhoye yup. Still reaching for php if all I need is a bit of html and a some http headers
- Oct 22, 2026, 4:24 PM
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Oct 22, 2026, 4:36 PMI used to work with Rasmus Lerdorf. He was quite open that PHP was built for doing simple things with page generation, since the whole "app" had to run in milliseconds while the page was being delivered. He conceded that the problem was that it was super compelling to add stuff into PHP, which just made things more complicated. A LOT of PHP apps really should be some other backend that PHP talks to.
I'll admit, I stopped doing a lot of PHP a while ago. Now, I'll probably use javascript with
XHTMLRequestcalls and nginx rules, with a few python CGI scripts doing anything that needs heavy lifting, but I absolutely understand the strong appeal of PHP.