[wolco]

"There are a hundred examples that are specific to whatever app this guy built for the Healthcare company, not all of which are covered by the PHP standard library."

You would need to implement whatever custom code required or use a libruary. You would need to do the same with a framework. No framework offers business health care functionality. Do you think laravel has an ocr skin cancer detector package?

PHP is fast to write. Hearing people from the outside saying its impossible to write a php site that quickly makes me laugh. PHP makes development easy.

[hnick]

"PHP is fast to write. Hearing people from the outside saying its impossible to write a php site that quickly makes me laugh. PHP makes development easy."

Yeah that's odd to me too. I mean, that's pretty much the biggest argument against using PHP (well it was, back in the day). Bad sites written easily by inexperienced programmers.

[diminoten]

PHP isn't the problem, the claim that there are no security issues despite hand rolling every feature is the issue, and it's in no way accurate.

A lot of bad software engineering going on in these comments, downvotes don't change that...