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Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if “PHP is still relevant?” Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway… happy birthday!

    • petersr@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 day ago

      What’s your alternative for web development?

      Server side rendered content can only get you so far.

      • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Webassembly frameworks.

        Blazor! But only because I’m a dotnet guy professionally.

        Yew? I’m not good enough with Rust to have tried it.

        • PolarKraken@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          Dotnet professionally and using lemmy.ml socially is hilarious to me and (sincerely) entirely consistent. Makes perfect sense, I just find it funny. (I’m not being sarcastic or attacking you, might not be clear lol)

          • lad@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            14 hours ago

            I’ve toyed with WASM, creating a simple sudoku page, and it did take an empty page, added all the buttons, and then changed them upon user interaction.

            I think, I also heard of the DOM modification limitations, but it’s not a hard barrier afaik, there are just some cases where it can’t

            But still, doing something in (pure) WASM looks way harder than needed to me

      • Billegh@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 day ago

        Right? That’s the mindset that brought us asp, jsp, and php. JS might be obnoxious, but it’s the only viable client-side right now.