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  • Lou.gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Oct 22, 2026, 10:24 AM

    @afilina youtube.com/watch?v=80ysU2Xl4Zk
    That presentation of PHP changed my mind on the language. Before, I focused on how it's inconsistent and its design encourage to go spaghetti with presentation and logic all mixed together. (I learned of django's router/function/template and I'm not going back).

    But watching that presebtation, I understood how much effort PHP put in being friendly to new-comer. When I started, I opened wamp and boom, I had a PHP dev environment. Two click and done.

    PHP is nice.

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  • ratfactorratfactor@mastodon.art
    Oct 23, 2026, 7:53 PM

    @gkrnours @afilina Yes!!! Rasmus's talks are excellent. PHP was *so much* nicer to work with (especially to set up) than the alternatives in the early 2000s... and I still haven't found anything really comparable. It's a wonderful tool and I'm grateful we have it.

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  • ⠴picnoir⠦picnoir@social.alternativebit.fr
    Oct 23, 2026, 8:24 PM
    @gkrnours @afilina Just watched it, fascinating. I had no idea they spent so much time thinking about "scaling down" the language.

    The "template" language for C origin story surprised me as well.

    Thanks for the share!
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