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josefjk@mastodon.social
Oct 21, 2026, 8:46 AM
i really like PHP. in my experience, its full of insane issues and functions called "doThingSecurely_final_FINAL". but it's a tool, like excel or hypercard, that lets a normal person make Web without years becoming a Web Developer. you could just throw it onto a server and make a view counter or whatever. just mash it in there in the HTML for some basic dynamic feature on an otherwise-static page. wow! then 'Developers' ruined it, like with javascript, by trying to use it to make actual software
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josefjk@mastodon.social
Oct 21, 2026, 8:51 AM
the main thing that's good about the web as a medium, imo, is that you can just chuck something into a directory and then it will appear in web browsers around the world. you can edit the file and hit save and refresh. the magic that you feel is the core of the entire thing. and as far as i've seen, Web Development, as a discipline, has focused for the last few decades on systematically destroying that magic
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David's Alias :heart_ace::therian:datguydavid@yiff.life
Oct 21, 2026, 5:56 PM
@jk
It's the only language I have preferred for making actual webpages. It's a mess, but nothing else ever comes close for me when it comes to writing a webpage.
Static HTML is a pain to write, so I use builders. I need something that deploys fast, so it needs to be interpreted. I need access to databases sometimes or even just a matured HTTP library, and having it built in to my language is something I could never ask for less of. It just works and I don't understand why we're so allergic to that.
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