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In case anyone has moral issues with migrating to Lemmy vs Kbin, check this out. (kbin.social)

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

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So yea, turns out the dude stole a lot of code from other projects and people.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Since you asked, I'll give you a nuanced answer.

PHP is not, in itself, inherently bad. The newer versions are performant and if you are a good programmer, you can produce completely fine stuff with it.

The problem is that it's flexibility leads to sloppy programming, which leads to projects that turn into a cluster. A good example is WordPress. I'd argue WordPress itself is well written. Once you add a dozen or so badly written plugins though it becomes a mess.

A lot of the criticism is the same that JavaScript gets. It's a loosely typed language. So "1" is different than 1. The first is a string and the second is an integer. So if you add 1+1 you could end up with 11 instead of 2.

Again, this isn't a problem if you're a disciplined dev, but we're not a breed known for our discipline ;)

When I tried Kbin it was slow, which I attributed to badly written PHP code. However, I didn't do the research to confirm this was the case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If you tried it a few days ago during the reddit blackouts, it was getting overwhelmed with traffic. The sole owner/operator has largely improved things in short order though. It was much better today.