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0 pointsgkya8y ago0 comments

Node was a very interesting thing back when it started. It was a hack, but a nice kind of hack. You could write some efficient servers with it. But then the community that formed around it, with it the project went berserk.

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roywiggins8y ago· 3 in thread

A bit like PHP in that way?

gkyaOP8y ago

Well, kind of. Node was not a general purpose tool as conceived initially. You would write some I/O bound servers in it. And PHP too is not a general purpose tool, it is for writing interactive web pages (in its pre-Web2.0 sense) easily. Though Node.js was way more intellectually designed. I don't know much about PHP, but there's lots of literature (see https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/).

lillesvin8y ago

I really wish that people would stop referencing that "Fractal of Bad Design" article. It's outdated and mostly irrelevant now (April 2012, PHP was at 5.4 then, it's at 7.2 now). It's not that I want to defend PHP, I just think people should judge PHP for what it is now instead of what it was several major changes ago.

Besides, the author seems to misunderstand a great many things about PHP and languages in general. Here's a short rebuttal (also from April 2012): https://blog.ircmaxell.com/2012/04/php-sucks-but-i-like-it.h... that explains some of the misunderstandings.

zapt028y ago

I wonder when people will stop quoting this 4+ year old article. Most of what are actually issues are long fixed. https://php.vrana.cz/php-a-fractal-of-not-so-bad-design.php

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