{"id":10718,"date":"2022-08-05T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2022-08-05T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T17:13:22","slug":"red-meat-friday-php-is-the-right-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10718","title":{"rendered":"Red Meat Friday: PHP Is The Right Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you have to say for Daniel Abernathy is that he\u2019s not afraid of the heavy lift. He\u2019s got a post that presses the claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longhornphp.com\/php-is-the-right-choice-in-2022-and-beyond\">PHP Is the Right Choice in 2022 and Beyond<\/a>. It\u2019s hard to find more people than you can count on one hand who will admit to liking PHP but, of course, its popularity gainsays that popular wisdom. Still, it\u2019s fair to say that PHP is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rodney_Dangerfield\">Rodney Dangerfield<\/a> of programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>Even Abernathy admits the post\u2019s title may be a little overstated but he does make the case that there\u2019s a lot to like about the language and ecosystem and that it\u2019s not like it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel Odendahl <a href=\"https:\/\/the.scapegoat.dev\/why-i-love-php-and-javascript\/\">seems to agree<\/a> but some reddit commenters are less obliging. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/programming\/comments\/wf8hvk\/comment\/iisszwj\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">One<\/a> comments that \u201cAs much as I despise java, at least a group of allegedly competent engineers took the time to actually design the language and its type system, as opposed to hacking together a bunch of stupid shit workarounds on top of an already hacked together brain-damaged non-designed crap, which is the case of php.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m completely agnostic on the matter because I don\u2019t know the language at all. I\u2019ve written exactly one line of PHP and that was because of exigent circumstances. I only got away with it because it\u2019s sufficiently C-like that I could fall back on my mental muscle memory.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, hating on PHP is well entrenched and nothing Abernathy or Odendahl can say will do much to change that. That\u2019s why Abernathy\u2019s fearless, if ultimately futile, defense of the language has earned him a coveted spot on Irreal\u2019s Red Meat Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you have to say for Daniel Abernathy is that he\u2019s not afraid of the heavy lift. He\u2019s got a post that presses the claim that PHP Is the Right Choice in 2022 and Beyond. It\u2019s hard to find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10718\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-rmf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}