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Comment by danielvaughn | Hacker News Reader

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I didn't know about this until a while back, I was at a meetup. Casually talking to other JS developers, I mentioned off-hand how I had written PHP was back in like 2010-2012. Started talking shit about the language and a guy behind me called me out and went on a long spiel about how great it has become.

Now that file-based routing is making a comeback (https://enhance.dev), it would be interesting (and hilarious) to see it come full circle and we all go back to writing SSR with PHP.

> go back to writing SSR with PHP.

Hello. I'm someone that never stopped.

Been paying my bills with PHP for fifteen years, and as PHP has gotten better and better I haven't regretted a minute of it.

I mean en masse, to the point that a significant percentage of new projects decide to go with that tech stack.

Sure, spaghetti React/JSX code coupled with SSR is the new hotness :D

For Node/JS folks, we've had "PSX" for decades in PHP:

  <?php
  
  function render($html) {
    return <<< PSXRULEZ
      Look ma, it's pure $html!
  PSXRULEZ;

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