I don’t know if it’s due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012…). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.
Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?
I’m kinda impressed that in the four days I’ve been here, the site has gone from a bit slow and clunky to smooth and reliable. I guess in part that’s just how computing speed has improved so much over the years. Even VPSes are cheap. We’re not on a 400MHz Pentium II with spinning rust any more, where the idea of going to many thousand users in a short time was clearly impossible. These days things can scale upwards pretty quick.