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0 pointsKovah2y ago0 comments

I would say that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Of course, people behind projects matter a lot. You can have robust and beautifully crafted PHP projects, and also horribly running, bloated and hacky Rust or Java projects. But, AndroTux has an absolutely valid point with saying that PHP was designed to run websites. Most languages have a clear focus of what they should and can do. There's the neat quote "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" and it pretty much sums up the matter. Some languages should stay with what they are made for.

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AndroTux2y ago

Well said. I don't necessarily think that PHP can and should only do HTML rendering. Laravel for example includes a nice job queue which in my opinion makes perfect sense, as it is tightly integrated with the rest of the system, even if it's technically not what PHP was designed to do. But if you have to ship the interpreter and an entire browser just to make it work, maybe it's time to consider other options. And yes, that applies to JavaScript Electron apps as well. I can see the value in them from a business standpoint, but the amount of wasted PC resources just bugs me a lot. I don't want to waste 1 GB of memory just for a chat client.

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