Stupid Question, not an insult: Why is kbin written in PHP? (kbin.social)

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

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Is PHP still a relevant language in today's day and age? I know a LOT of languages and it just never occurred to me to learn this one, because anyone I've ever been aware of writing a backend these days would either choose Node or one of several compiled languages. Lemmy uses Rust for it's backend which is highly desireable, many people would have used Golang in the backend world if they desired performance and compilation, otherwise I don't know why you wouldn't just use Typescript. Makes it hard to contribute to IMO.

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[-] majkeli@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I’m currently involved in a rewrite! One of very few in 20 years of dev work. We prototyped our front end in node/js and we’re rewriting in React. We’re largely keeping the express backend, though.

[-] baggachipz@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

we prototyped our frontend in node/js

Uh… wut

[-] majkeli@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. People make bad decisions frequently. The rewrite was a way of keeping the newer devs on the project (like me) from revolting.

[-] baggachipz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

But node doesn't run in the browser. So was it all SSR?

[-] majkeli@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Mainly tooling and a few ill conceived React components that never really fit anywhere and are now polluting our new build process until we are able to rewrite them.

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