And this is why I am removing PHP from my stack...

1. 2018-10-15 at 3:10 AM UTC

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   filtration African Astronaut
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2. 2018-10-15 at 3:27 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   lol, I've seen similar cryfests all over the place
   
   it's what happens when everyone tries to 'learn to code'
3. 2018-10-15 at 4:24 AM UTC

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   Sudo Black Hole [my hereto riemannian peach]
   Lrn2curl
4. 2018-10-15 at 4:27 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   fyi Laravel's documentation is a mess, their official tutorial doesn't work because they keep moving paths around and don't bother to update the documentantion
5. 2018-10-20 at 9:42 AM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I understand there's been a bit of a resurgence in PHP ecosystem in the last 5 years or so but all I can ever ask myself when I see it is "why?". Like PHP's value proposition, and guiding principle at the earliest level of language design, was that it was better for CGI scripting than competitors at the time of inception. Everyone has realized that CGI scripts don't scale, they don't even really make sense as soon as you have a database because you have to do some kind of black magic for something as simple as connection pooling. Yet people are apparently building MVC frameworks in PHP? For what reason? The language design is abysmal, the execution model is shoehorned from the GGI era and very visibly so, the community is garbage, the language itself has features for dumping the whole scope [i]into an HTML document as it's being rendered[/i]. This is like the parents who keep their 90% braindead child alive at tremendous cost after extreme medical intervention so that it can suffer for a couple years before dying. Morally reprehensible. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJOBAEBCAA4FiEEaplk9V8kovCcp8BrznljHEc+lFoFAlvK+IIaHGxhbi5yb2dl cnMuYm9va0BnbWFpbC5jb20ACgkQznljHEc+lFriCA//VxJE8yEO98ge5Xt+WZpc QbttHyo7KGYkCbv4Cm+67pjY0NC9S7UNs864i3tm9T9itL0+WPFI6CbwszP+JuYh uo0e7knpFVIKucnFn1xC6Ry9vZwP3dZuRlPK8hh/hOtpVzUK3kbr7KfQLqzuwggU CSbHiUzhSabI4ku3HySAGiQbJxirlojtKyzuhTUhnOdVhfgbarb2vvLmNANVGPzP j5oFj/Sds3uSKiQ9IDEpr0mknPPTyNVcsbSa1yyMKTtDqfcRuydiuGp5O3GnyyBB ZqW8ME+sGFqicFlOfhc9XKz4y7cZV8cO6z53JVk2/VrS4ygWISaIYvhAsg1PVr9B Q/NWGPPlC6WZudCptIHwKXsIPeHhPfFzxOddsz6EGRES036l6b9rlMoUzSzLx1c3 zWOf09HRY0SMrooLw/m/I/UfUY/R+2cX640nyGKAQOpOy+BFhe7rYpGpvJIqgrPg EzlDGMyN+eH3EPQ1wMZqxk6GfnPPY7uahBx8Jl8rYti/gjjxnqNYXEVCnu6s2Fy8 RLsjmXcUVICoVyOYIfkcyRIyCpaOU79d3Y0QNvyiZ53BaWve0plPPq99uttoX1Sh tUigNeZwb8hIiWZ2RHxagdsLnVjF3Zssl5kFTFD9rJcAY5iIpRAdR3V7FAJHjBBe qQCMvpD7cwYRVSnd45Kimog= =OsBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

   I understand there's been a bit of a resurgence in PHP ecosystem in the last 5 years or so but all I can ever ask myself when I see it is "why?". Like PHP's value proposition, and guiding principle at the earliest level of language design, was that it was better for CGI scripting than competitors at the time of inception. Everyone has realized that CGI scripts don't scale, they don't even really make sense as soon as you have a database because you have to do some kind of black magic for something as simple as connection pooling. Yet people are apparently building MVC frameworks in PHP? For what reason? The language design is abysmal, the execution model is shoehorned from the GGI era and very visibly so, the community is garbage, the language itself has features for dumping the whole scope into an HTML document as it's being rendered.
   
   This is like the parents who keep their 90% braindead child alive at tremendous cost after extreme medical intervention so that it can suffer for a couple years before dying. Morally reprehensible.