[baq]

You’re implying serious and useful work can be done in a stable tech stack? Preposterous.

Seriously though, not a fan of php at all but the js tooling is rocket science in comparison.

[mschuster91]

> Seriously though, not a fan of php at all but the js tooling is rocket science in comparison.

laughs in left-pad, Webpack, Grunt, ...

JavaScript tooling absolutely sucks - even for a moderate sized project, `npm install` can take many minutes, often enough because some native code has to be compiled. Webpack builds can take even longer.

In contrast, with PHP you run `composer install` and it works, no bundling or whatever required.

[Shish2k]

I think that’s what they meant - “rocket science” as in “way too complicated for 99% of down-to-earth jobs”

[baq]

Back when I was doing serious work in php it was ftp (yes, no ‘s’) the php files onto an Apache box and that was it! Go went the same way, at least.