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Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? (lemmy.sdf.org)
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I don't know if it's due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012...). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.

Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?

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[–] Pekka@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

PHP lost a lot of popularity yes. But developers still use the major PHP frameworks, those solve a lot of the issues many developers had with PHP. On the StackOverflow survey Laravel was still used by 7.5% of the responses and Symfony by 3.2%.

Currently I’m actually taking over a website that was written with Laravel and rebuilding everything in SvelteKit.