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Ahahaha I legitimately cannot tell if this is a sarcastic blog post. To me it just sounds like such a joke. It's quite confusing.

I hope it's a joke...

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I think this is a realistic reflection on the state of this area in our industry. It is both sarcastic/a joke and not a joke at all.

Poe's law in full action. If for some reason this is not a joke, it's a pretty lousy tutorial, as for every single arbitrary framework/tool decision here, there's not a single rationale here but "because it's 2017". I'd absolutely prefer 1995's Hello World if it's just about saying "Hello World".

Generally I would agree with you, but I think it should be taken with a grain of salt. "Hello World" is somewhat metaphorical concept, the ultimate goal isn't to show the label itself, but to show what is the amount of work required to produce some generic output without any business-logic involved. This means that it totally makes sense to use OpenGL or ncurses to show "Hello world" on the screen, even though they are obviously not necessary to do just that. It's just that they will be necessary for many other typical tasks we are considering.

So, although I wouldn't really chose tools author choses here, so the "not-really-a-joke joke" is still largely opinionated, I have to admit that assuming AJAX and some kind of MVC-ish framework (even if it's a one of your own) on both back-end and front-end is pretty much a must for a typical PHP web-application.

I don't think it's a joke, but I also don't think "tutorial" is the right word either. It seems more like an illustrative commentary on the state of the webdev industry.

I think the word you're looking for is "satire".

That has extra connotations of parody that I was trying to avoid.

Actually I'd prefer the program just consisted of plain text since that's perfectly valid PHP.

I think this is a realistic reflection of one side of the industry. There are still some that I know who don't use 70% of what's mentioned but still run a profitable business in website development. Sometimes I think they're the more productive ones that don't comment on HN posts :)

Nicely done. Now back to work! LOL :)

Otherwise known as ironic.

its really funny :) my favorite line is:

"That’s it, we can run it now. “Hello, world!” is displayed on the screen. It looks almost like the result of <?php echo «hello, world» ?>"

I think it's a case of "Ha, Ha, only serious"

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