Stop hating PHP

󰃭 2025-03-07 | #frameworks #php

I have been working with PHP in a professional environment for about three years. Despite this, PHP remains one of the most disliked languages among developers, which I find difficult to understand because it has evolved into a fairly robust and capable language. Why is it hated so much? In its early days, PHP was considered quite insecure. Many of the CVEs at the time were related to PHP, reinforcing its reputation as an unsafe language—an assessment that was accurate back then.

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Your learning sideprojects code can be shitty

󰃭 2025-03-03 | #code-quality #learning #sideprojects

In the past few days, I have been working on a side project that uses PHP and Laravel. I should mention that I had never used Laravel before in my life. My professional experience has primarily been with other PHP frameworks, like Symfony, and I thought: Why not try something new? I believe many people feel the same way. They want to explore something they’ve never worked with before. This is the essence of lifelong learning, especially in software engineering.

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