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by quickthrower2 1095 days ago
For a side project I used some PHP to get a job done. Why? because you can edit the file on the server and keep trying it out till it works. On 90s style hosting that is cheap and honest. The iteration speed is amazing. CI/CD took <100ms.
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bbkane 1095 days ago
When I wrote PHP on the server I had real problems with the "CI" part- I would refresh my page an manually test each change. Do you have Continuous Integration tests (i.e. automated) for this code or are you also doing the manual refresh cycle?

No shame either way, I think the juice isn't worth the squeeze for automatic testing short-lived code myself

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quickthrower2 1094 days ago
Sorry that was my silly subtle joke. The CI I am referring to here is refreshing the page! And I agree the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

(I love CI systems at work and wouldn't live without them, but that wait time :-(, so everyone tries to get the OODA loop on their local machine )

One idea I had would to build an Elm-like backend language BUT with PHP's "edit the file on the server and it runs" nature. Combine that with some source control, forking and more of a VSCode editor on the server, and you would have a nice DX for small projects.

All those features exist but they live in different languages/stacks, you can't have them all at once (I hope this is where someone replies "you say that... but have you tried X"!)

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