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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: 0s | source
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dingdingdang ◴[09 Sep 25 21:01 UTC] No.45189044[source]▶
The point made in the article:

* resource leaks are non-existent

Can not be emphasized enough imo. The amount of absolute ridiculous levels of pain instigated by expecting a core code loop to run -forever- and doing so well while being written for some web project or other is just too much to fathom. Just use PHP and serve the request. Then let it die. Then serve a new request.

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1. mekazu ◴[09 Sep 25 21:07 UTC] No.45189147[source]▶
Agree that it’s good to get the certainty of zero memory leaks (assuming there’s no associated bugs in apache) but it’s not that hard to write code that doesn’t cause memory leaks for stateful apps as long as you are able to follow certain simple principles and avoid bugs in the third party libs you use.