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by lmm 4643 days ago
> Can anyone please point me in the direction of an open source project on Github that can showcase to me the 'elegance' of all these other programming languages that have the scale and adoption of some of the more well-known PHP community pieces?

Just look at MoinMoin's source and see how much more elegant it is than MediaWiki.

> either an unfair comparison (language to 'rails')

Why is that unfair?

> a bad taste left in the mouth because the person worked with a nasty domain specific language like Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, etc.

If that's how PHP is used in practice then it's fair to complain about PHP.
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adamors 4643 days ago
> Why is that unfair?

Because PHP isn't actually used like that. Most engineers use frameworks (like Symfony, Zend, Yii, Cake, Laravel etc.) or at least components of these frameworks if they work on something very complex. NIH is a thing of the past.

> If that's how PHP is used in practice then it's fair to complain about PHP.

If shitty developers use a language then it's fair to complain about said language? Really?

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