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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·
    3 days ago

    What’s your alternative for web development?

    Server side rendered content can only get you so far.

    • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 days 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·
        2 days 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·
          2 days 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·
      3 days 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.