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by NackerHughes 573 days ago
PHP is still definitely a beginner-friendly language that is still very easy to get started with. Setup is as trivial as it always has been, copy a .php file onto a server and you’re good to go. No complicated frameworks or “deployment process” needed if you don’t want them (and most people don’t need them).

The difference between it and Java is you’re not forced into the ClassObjectGetterSetterPropertyHookFactoryBean paradigm with PHP. You can continue to write concise, simple, elegant scripts that read from top to bottom and serve one page and serve it well. You don’t have to use any of these crazy newfangled features - I, for one, will be using none of them, and will be sticking to my if-else blocks and nested for loops that will be easy to read and grok when I (or someone else!) come back to the code two months down the line.
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littlestymaar 573 days ago
I still do, every once in a while when I'm using PHP for my personal websites, but it's been a very long time since I've updated the (very basic) dependencies I'm using since they all migrated to the “enterprise-grade tooling of the day” after 2010 or something.

While PHP can still be uses like that today (and is still unmatched in terms of ease of use for simple stuff when used like that) it's been a long time since the PHP project and developer community stopped caring about this use-case.

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immibis 573 days ago
Java doesn't force you into that paradigm either. Well, most of it. Your code is still contained within a method within a class.

If you write JSP, you don't even need that.

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