In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about how much modern web development has taken from PHP!
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Show Notes
03:56 - Why much of modern web development is just recreating PHP
- Everyone loves to hate on PHP, but modern Web dev takes a lot from PHP
05:44 - Mixing templating and logic
07:39 - Each request has its own scope
08:57 - Massive standard lib
- Format a date? No sweat!
- Image resizing? Sure!
- Audio bindings? Sure!
10:16 - URL-based routing
11:13 - Server-rendered
11:38 - $_GET, $_POST, are just available
12:29 - Variable interpolation
12:59 - All-in-one frameworks
13:32 - Direct DB access
14:37 - Why do people hate PHP?
- WordPress
- Inconsistent API
- Their first code was PHP and they sucked
- PHP has come a long way
- It used to not be safe
- Blocking by default - no async/await
17:48 - Why is JS still better?
- Shared code between frontend and backend
- Single language
- Huge ecosystem (could be a con)
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