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by phoboslab
983 days ago
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I love PHP. It's been my "get shit done" language for 20 years. It sustained many of my projects and not once became the bottleneck. Wordpress however is still a hug pile of garbage. It might be functional and has all the features you'd ever need, but I could never trust it to run even a simple blog. Edit: just looked at the some random Wordpress sources to check if source quality improved. It didn't. Who could ever be productive with something like this?: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-admin/... |
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The millions of sites running on Wordpress? Wordpress? Facebook?
Maybe Wordpress has outgrown its php legacy, but there are many websites that are far better off writing a bunch of HTML/inline CSS/and a sprinkling of php and JS and getting it out there, as opposed to setting up massive build tool chains and writing React components.
In fact, when that was the norm, line developers were far more productive and building tons of personal and commercial webpages from scratch, building websites, web apps, etc. The developer output and productivity outside of large corporations and organizations seems far lower today than it did a decade+ ago.
Edit: I’m not a PHP developer, but I’m going over that code and it seems eminently readable. Heck, even as a non php developer I can fully understand what it’s trying to do. What exactly is the issue with the code? Is it the fact that the HTML part is written as HTML and not some made up language that tries to look like HTML but then compiles down to JS which then tries to reconstruct the HTML looking like thing back into HTML? Or the fact that i can read much of the code in that single file and don’t have to dig into a build configuration file to figure out where the corresponding JS and CSS files are located?
I’m sure there’s a lot of ways the code can be improved, but this code seems just fine?