I don’t know if it’s due to over-exposure to programming memes but I certainly believed that no one was starting new PHP projects in 2023 (or 2020, or 2018, or 2012…). I was under the impression we only still discussed it at all because WordPress is still around.
Would a PHP evangelist like to disabuse me of my notions and make an argument for using PHP for projects such as Kbin in this day and age?
Yeah, that’s fair enough, I’ll agree to that.
I think the challenge arises when your hobby project gets funding and thousands of people start using it… But at that point the codebase is likely locked into many previously made decisions. Locked in as in - it would take too much effort to change it.