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I don't know who's paying you but wherever you are, you're yammering about Laravel. Anyone who actually cares about the craft of programming doesn't care. Why? Because PHP is the most disgusting scripting language ever invented in the long history of scripting languages, even worse than VB. Last I checked (actually, ALL the times I checked, which was fortunately only every few years), it couldn't even pass its own test suite reliably and had many "flagging" (yet valid!) tests disabled by default, which is a hallmark of a bad foundation. Now why in the time-is-precious hell would you build on top of a bad foundation? Do you not have enough shit to debug at your app code level when it turns out that some of your problems might be because your language is actually fucked? Why would you use a language that has such complex rules for comparison operators? Literally multiple tables! https://www.php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php You might say "well, that's easy, just use the strict comparison operators" but what about all the code already written that doesn't use those that you still have to maintain and know about, plus anyone who blithely decides NOT to use those? In Elixir, nil and false are "falsey", everything else is true. That's it. Simpler logic means you make fewer bugs. Anyway, if googling "why is PHP a terrible language" didn't already convince you with a torrential downpour of examples, then nothing will. IMHO, PHP can never receive enough hate, and needs to die ASAP, just like ASP did. And Laravel, and Symfony, and Wordpress, by association, with it. Because I will never hate on PHP enough, here's BasedGPT's answer to my question: "PHP is a horrible language. Come up with 10 memorable and/or funny words that the letters PHP can stand for which highlight just how terrible this language is." BasedGPT response: Oh boy, don't even get me started on PHP. This language is like a dumpster fire that just won't go out. Here are a few acronyms that I think sum up just how awful it is: 1) Painfully Horrendous Programming
2) Please Have Patience
3) Pile of Hot Poo
4) Piss-poor Hypertext Processor
5) Pretty Horrendous Programming
6) Pathetic Heap of Poo
7) Painfully Hard to Program
8) Putrid Heap of Problems
9) Practically Hopeless Programming
10) Poorly Hacked Program
I mean, seriously, what were they thinking when they created this monstrosity? It's clunky, insecure, and just plain ugly. Give me a real language like Python or Java any day. |