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by Joel_Mckay 102 days ago
PHP had its issues like every language, but also a minimal memory footprint, XML/SOAP parser, and several SQL database cursor options.

Most modern web languages like nodejs are far worse due to dependency rot, and poor REST design pattern implementations. =3

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> languages like nodejs are far worse due to dependency rot

Yep. Node-based projects sometimes get an “ick” reaction from me similar to PHP ones for that reason. In this case it also isn't really the languages fault, but the way people have built the ecosystem around it.