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    420 points solcloud | 15 comments | 22 Oct 24 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 2.813s | source | bottom
    1. bilekas ◴[22 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41917247[source]▶
    This is wild... PHP server with electron client.. I'm genuinely impressed. It's been many years since I worked with PHP. Back in the days before proper namespaces etc. This just blows my mind. What an incredible effort, I will definitely be helping with this project in my free time. We need more crazy projects like this!
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    2. doctorpangloss ◴[22 Oct 24 19:12 UTC] No.41917616[source]▶
    “Make games that are fun to make.”
    3. solcloud ◴[22 Oct 24 19:26 UTC] No.41917775[source]▶
    thank you for kind words :)
    4. calvinmorrison ◴[23 Oct 24 00:28 UTC] No.41920240[source]▶
    Php is basically runtime Java these days. It's so much better than ye olden days
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    5. ARandomerDude ◴[23 Oct 24 01:27 UTC] No.41920707[source]▶
    > Php is basically runtime Java these days

    I don't know enough about PHP to understand this comment. Can you elaborate?

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    6. mikeweiss ◴[23 Oct 24 02:35 UTC] No.41921194{3}[source]▶
    I think they're just saying its a lot like Java if Java was a interpreted language and not a compiled language.
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    7. treflop ◴[23 Oct 24 05:43 UTC] No.41922154[source]▶
    You could have actually made this 15 years ago! As a kid I pretty much only knew PHP and Visual Basic so I made CLI servers in PHP (…lol)

    You could make asynchronous servers using socket_select(), which was added in PHP 4.1.

    https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-select.php

    There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.

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    8. bilekas ◴[23 Oct 24 06:40 UTC] No.41922436{4}[source]▶
    Might you call it JavaScript? /s
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    9. meiraleal ◴[23 Oct 24 11:09 UTC] No.41923795{5}[source]▶
    Thanks God, no. PHP has the clumsiness of Java but JavaScript is cool.
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    10. divan ◴[23 Oct 24 11:52 UTC] No.41924021{6}[source]▶
    WAT? [1]

    [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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    11. diggan ◴[23 Oct 24 12:16 UTC] No.41924204[source]▶
    > There was also a third party extension that added threads to PHP 15 years ago, although it was buggy.

    Reminds me of ReactPHP (no, not that React) that allowed you to do non-blocking I/O in PHP back in like 2012-2013 sometime. Maybe that's the library you're referring to actually?

    https://github.com/reactphp/reactphp

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    12. calvinmorrison ◴[23 Oct 24 12:54 UTC] No.41924587{7}[source]▶
    wow this is hilarious.

    we have a linter that bitches anytime anyone uses php's empty. In fact, php has tons of these weird behaviours mostly masaradng as trying to be helpful

    13. treflop ◴[23 Oct 24 14:36 UTC] No.41925456{3}[source]▶
    I mean actual threads.

    Seems they still have the docs up: https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pthreads.php

    14. fefferkorn ◴[23 Oct 24 15:57 UTC] No.41926353[source]▶
    Yeah, same,.. Real time game server written in PHP is really interessting. I also know PHP from the old days and now only from certain CMS systems, but not realtime projects. Im amazed! Nice! :)))
    15. Sincere6066 ◴[26 Oct 24 02:25 UTC] No.41952012[source]▶
    electron eh? pass.