Post #1963503
2026-04-01 14:45 UTC
I'm literally working on APIs for my company on python right now, while I develop something else in django for my personal project(s). I've worked for fortune 500 companies, and actually used minimal PHP on my own website as a hack for menu reuse.
It's a joke , you guys are taking it too seriously. The main idea is that compared to things like python, php is outdated. Yes, legacy systems exist, and are successful. But it was a punching bag for webdev hate for a long time, in a way that other things like perl, ruby , or python have not been.
Maybe regurgitating those jokes are not that funny. Alright. Doesn't mean that you need to try to bring my skills down and attack my professionalism.
Replies (2)
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@thejml@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-01 17:12
Ironically, Python is older than PHP, albeit not by more than a few years (1991 vs 1995). Both are antiquated at this point, but both have their uses, so do what works, no shame here. I tend to prefer statically typed languages personally and TDD is a big win for larger code bases when possible. My current place of employment has been on the Golang and Rust bandwagon for a while, but theres still plenty of dotNet, PHP and Python hanging around because they were just the best tool for the job at the time.
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@Feyd@programming.dev 2026-04-01 23:02
I haven't touched PHP in like a decade but I don't remember anything as frustrating in my entire career as dealing with python package management.