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!

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[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I exercised all client side JavaScript from an app I maintain. It’s fast, clean, and the back button always works. I just checked on one of the more complicated pages, and according to Firefox’s memory profile, it takes about 2.6MB of RAM.

Wow, that really is a light weight! What exercise do you have your code perform to get such impressive results?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

No JavaScript, just HTML and CSS. Basically no images. The heaviest page dumps 50 rows of logs in a table.

It's admittedly a fundamentally simple frontend, but we all know of frontends with a simple job and a not so simple frontend.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah, so it sounds like it was more about dieting than exercising.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was thinking more in the sense of an exercisism.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

The belief that exercising one's code is good? I am certainly all in favor of testing, to be sure!

(Sorry, I have been having some playful fun at your expense: the actual word you have been reaching for is excise, e.g., "If only I had exercised more, then I would not have developed a tumor requiring excision!")