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Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't know too much about PHP (aside from it getting memed on constantly), but kbin is built using the Symfony framework, which is really performant and mature based on what I've heard from others. Also, apparently ~80% of all websites (that W3techs knows about) rely on PHP in some way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The 80% stem mostly from WordPress and a bunch of domain placeholders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure but there's also Pornhub, Wikipedia, and Facebook which use PHP. Other large websites use PHP too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Facebook doesn't really use PHP, but Hack, which is afair a PHP dialect and runtime/compiler.

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