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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 11 points 1 day ago

Worldwide SaaS is about as descriptive as Business Company

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"This can't be true because PHP is dead."

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is not dead which can eternal lie.

Though HP's disturbed mind couldn't ever come up with something as upsetting as the average PHP application's codebase.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Indeed. Try making something with Symfony and you're going to have to adhere to strict theoretical guidelines that encourages you to write 200 10-line files, for a simple application. Use Drupal and well, you're going to spend ten years just to understand how it all works on that pathetic joke, use laravel and as opinionated as it is, it's probably going to make a lot more sense to you in ten months time.

Unless, you want to do something in the database other than basic CRUD. That's when ugly hacks are needed.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It lives on in the halls of financial mainframes, next to his uncle Cobal.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The worst code I've ever seen (by a longshot) was written in php.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I thought so too until I recently inherited some asp.net code that defies basic comprehension and has existed since well before vibe coding.