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The board needs to oust the CEO.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    17 hours ago

    I’ve been using WP for personal projects for something like 15 years.

    Nothing I’ve ever created has been that big, but I generally liked the tools nonetheless.

    But now I think I’m out. I try to adhere to a rule where I don’t support rich weirdos as much as possible, and as such that’s why I use Lemmy to begin with. And don’t buy from Amazon. And don’t use Twitter any more. Etc.

    So my next project now will totally be on new software. And hey, maybe I won’t have to use PHP ever again so this could be a win.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      184·
      16 hours ago

      Don’t judge PHP by what you saw in WordPress. Modern PHP is amazing, WordPress had horrible code when it started and they definitely didn’t fix things afterwards. It’s a horrible slow mess of a code. Look at some modern PHP (for example this api of mine ) to compare.

      • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        374·
        14 hours ago

        Thanks for sharing a modern php codebase. It makes me confident that giving it up and switching to Python was the right choice.

        • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
          67·
          7 hours ago

          Imagine going to the slowest and ugliest interpreted language there is and feeling superior about it.

          Like, modern Python is basically what PHP was at its lowest point, PHP 4 (20 years ago).

          • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
            42·
            6 hours ago

            No, it’s worse. PHP never had shit like virtual environments and a million different incompatible package managers.

              • egerlach@lemmy.caEnglish
                4·
                4 hours ago

                I’d argue that the concept of isolated environments is great. Python’s implementation… leaves something to be desired.

                It’s still a bit hacky, even in Python 3. Tools like uv and pdm exist in the gaps to smooth it out.

                That said, it’s something that the core community is actively working on and it’s not something users will face day to day.

                I say this as someone who moved from PHP 3 to Python 2 to Ruby to PHP 6+ to Python 3 as their goto language over the years.