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I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)

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123 points jonfelsar | 1 comments | 09 Sep 25 20:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.231s | source
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pestatije ◴[09 Sep 25 20:31 UTC] No.45188475[source]▶
every server provider and their cousin support it
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1. Unai ◴[09 Sep 25 20:52 UTC] No.45188887[source]▶
Which is great for beginners, and for anyone who couldn't care less about managing a server. You can get a shared hosting for literally less than peanuts and it will come with php support and a SQL database.

Back in the day I had one of those, even when I was broke, because the value was fantastic. There were tons of "self-hosted" type apps built with that stack (php+mysql), so you could have all sorts of apps running on there. I haven't checked in a while, but I guess nowadays that type of thing will be made for node, docker, etc.

In the endless framework wars where one day we are friends with server side rendering, the next with client side rendering and the next with eurasia, I keep seeing people reinventing what we already were doing with PHP long ago. I doubt it will happen, but I keep waiting for a PHP renaissance.