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tbossanovayesterday at 3:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

Nothing; but PHP, in experienced hands, will be waaay more productive for small-to-medium things. One issue is that experienced hands are increasingly hard to come by. Truly big, complicated things, built by large teams or numbers of teams, teams with a lot of average brains or AIs trained on average brains, will be better off in something like Typescript/React. And everyone wants to work on the big complicated stuff. So the "modern frameworks" will continue to dominate while smaller, more niche shops will wonder why they waste their time.


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jack_ppyesterday at 4:11 AM

I worked at a startup, they built their API in PHP because it was easy and fast. Now they're successful, app doesn't scale, high latency etc. What does their php code do? 95% of it is calling a DB.

You're telling me today with LLM power multiplier it's THAT much faster to write in PHP compared to something that can actually have a future?

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stavrosyesterday at 8:23 AM

I don't think it's true that experienced hands will be faster in PHP than in Python or JS or whatever. It's just about what you know, and experienced hands are experienced.

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