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PHP gained dominance by being the only thing that existed in early web days. Alternatives were Perl or C via CGI or PHP via apache that was so easy to learn and use it exploded.
Javascript and ruby didnt come out until after, java came out slightly before i think its forgotten just how old php is. It was designed for programmatically manipulating html pages which was revolutionary and wasnt designed with the modern internet.
Laravel 4/5 breathed new life into the language but its existence is based around intertia, high supply of cheap devs, wordpress. It also dominated the old serverside web which didnt get replaced by anything until around nodejs 4 when the concept for API and client separation became mainstream about 12 ish years ago and everyone became a full stack developer with public facing mongodb instances with the default login.
Source: been a webdev for far too long and the entire stack sucks regardless and the internet should only serve HTML pages as god intended
LAMP + jQuery + minimum wage dev team. Bangin profits
PHP 6
Cake PHP
CODEIGNITER
IIS
Windows server 2003
Relative imports
PHPmyadmin
~~this is why everytime I look at webdev I scurry back to my C shape hole~~ None of these words are in the Bible. I feel sorry for your lost soul.
As someone maintaining an entire platform written in PHP, jQuery, and Bootstrap, I rebuke thee
Blessed stack. Take me with you TAKE ME BACK
I’ll have you know that a few years ago our lead added React to the project using a custom webpack pipeline so now we have selectors that are being interacted with by both React and jQuery. Those bugs are fun
Add WebComponents to the mix then quit
I think I’ll add Lit specifically. Gotta have a framework for your web components. Oh and tailwind.
me not recognizing a single thing in your post except for Windows
I know how to write SQL queries to search for stuff.
Oh God relative imports. Queue the Kill Bill Ironsides siren