Oct 22, 2026, 11:50 AMthere’s plenty of legitimate reasons to dislike PHP and its ecosystem but the people dunking on it smugly typically have no clue and are just parroting what they heard the cool kids say. Grade A schoolyard bullshit.
- Oct 22, 2026, 11:50 AM
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- Oct 22, 2026, 12:06 PM
(PS there’s also plenty wrong with nodejs, java, python, ruby, perl and even the one you like. Let’s not engage in tribalism and work on improving things instead.)
Oct 22, 2026, 12:12 PM@marlies I hate the tools I love the most
- Oct 22, 2026, 12:13 PM
@h5e you can’t love computers without also hating them
- Oct 22, 2026, 12:15 PM
@marlies i want to trash mine daily
Suzanne Veermansmveerman@zug.networkOct 22, 2026, 12:17 PM- Oct 22, 2026, 12:21 PM
@smveerman @marlies i love mine as well
Oct 22, 2026, 12:17 PM@marlies this article is on my speed dial whenever people start language bashing: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture
Platinum Travel Award Lily 🥈whylilywhy@tacobelllabs.netOct 22, 2026, 2:06 PM@marlies Totally agree. In the early days, PHP had a reputation of being full of holes because of poorly written forum software and the like. It’s still a widely used for both self deployable and large scale applications.