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The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

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133 points avan1 | 4 comments | 30 Aug 25 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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77pt77 ◴[31 Aug 25 01:32 UTC] No.45079541[source]▶
The fact that we're still pretending PHP is a valid solution for almost anything after all these years is a joke.

Not only that, but now we have these "frankenstein" solutions with all the interop problems on top of PHP.

Just shows that as a species humans really can't learn.

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phendrenad2 ◴[31 Aug 25 02:08 UTC] No.45079703[source]▶
PHP really isn't that different from Ruby or Python these days. But, I can see the perspective where none of those 3 are valid solutions given newer better options like NodeJS and Rust.
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1. sneak ◴[31 Aug 25 02:34 UTC] No.45079843[source]▶
Yeah, I use php colab all of the time to run numpy stuff on gpus, I learned about it in my php data science class in university.

They’re basically equivalent now.

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2. phendrenad2 ◴[31 Aug 25 03:45 UTC] No.45080199[source]▶
You're right, there is one area where Python has an advantage over PHP, but it has nothing to do with the language, really, and more to do with tools people have built to transform the language for other purposes. So it's sort of like saying Python and Ruby are completely different because Rails exists for one and not the other.
3. 77pt77 ◴[31 Aug 25 15:30 UTC] No.45083948[source]▶
>I learned about it in my php data science class in university.

I rest my case...

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4. phendrenad2 ◴[01 Sep 25 08:02 UTC] No.45090597[source]▶
Ah, another data scientist, I should have known.