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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] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When doing a project where those things matter - sure. But if it’s your hobby protect you can do anything

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

Yeah, that's fair enough, I'll agree to that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think the challenge arises when your hobby project gets funding and thousands of people start using it... But at that point the codebase is likely locked into many previously made decisions. Locked in as in - it would take too much effort to change it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah. People really should be allowed to make things in whatever technology they prefer, but at the same time I can't help but wince when I see infrastructure such as Mastodon or Matrix Synapse being written in slow inefficient languages like Ruby and Python.

It's really bad for the strength of decentralized networks like Fedi when I have a friend telling me "I wish I didn't set up Mastodon because my tiny instance needs multiple gigabytes of RAM". I might have set up a Matrix homeserver myself by now if Synapse wasn't Python and notoriously slow. I immediately discarded Kbin as a choice (among other reasons) because it's PHP and Lemmy is Rust.

Always easy to say "hindsight is 20/20", but still.