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spiderfarmer
One of the best features of PHP is that you don't have to learn and unlearn new tech stacks every few years.
girvo
It’s been quite a few years since I last did PHP, but I wrote my own wedding invite management tool using Laravel and PHP 8.5

Herd is super neat, reminds me of XAMPP back in the day. FrankenPHP is everything I wanted out of a modern PHP web server.

And the language? Basically the same as I left it, with some nice things added. I kind of miss it :)

m3kw9
does that remain true when LLM's can generate almost any language?
spiderfarmer
Not understanding the elements of the tech stack an LLM generates for you is a recipe for disaster.
pkphilip
PHP remains one of the fastest ways of getting a web application done - especially with frameworks like Yii2, Laravel etc.
hbogert
I dunno, a simple webframework with golang goes pretty far as well. With a pho stack I always get forced into phpfpm, dependency injection containers, etc. Sure its easy to roll in, but it's not simple.