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Why is kbin written in PHP? Any chance it'll change to... something else? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by falsem@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I don't do frontend stuff but PHP has a bit of a negative reputation these days

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[–] maskapony@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

It it written using Symfony which is an extremely solid enterprise framework modeled on Java Spring.

PHP powers the majority of the web still and also has one of the largest development communities, proof of this usefulness is how many contributions have been made in the last few days: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls

In the long run it will probably be a great advantage to Kbin to be written in PHP and for anyone who hasn't seen the latest versions of PHP go look at the source code and have a look at all the recent improvements to the language.