Link: https://disreport.com/articles/s6ptt5ve/leave-php-alone

PHP is my childhood. 😭

The "leave Britney alone" girl was right though.

True enough

It's a pretty huge problem.

It’s a GOVERNMENT WEBSITE! They could have written it in divine scripture and it would still crash three days before an election!

Banger!

You leave PHP alone. It’s trying as hard as it can! You people don’t even care!

Cara Cunningham is the name Chris Crocker, the “Leave Britney Alone” person, goes by these days, for anyone confused what db2 is referring to with “girl.” I actually did not know—or did not remember—that they had transitioned. Good for them.

They usually are

I'm a JS dev. Fuck it, every language sucks, let me bash PHP and you can bash JS.

I mean if the languages you mostly know are JS and PHP, then it makes sense that you'd think that every language sucks.

That's the spirit!

Indeed every language sucks. Half my hard disk capacity is contained in a single node_modules folder.

What is it with all the PHP hate? People act like PHP is the first and only language ever to have a security flaw while in the real world this happens everywhere . anyone want to claim JavaScript never has security flaws, for example?

The only arguments I hear about "PHP sucks" are the tired 20year old arguments that even back then were flimsy at best. For those not in the know: PHP got improved. Has been doing that for over 25 years now, and I know it's surprising to many but PHP today isn't the same as php 20 years ago

Am I bitching and moaning? Hell yeah. I've been using PHP for 25 years now and I've built amazing things with it. Its still my favorite after all these years be cause it. Gets. Shit. Done.