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more like PHP, which is funny because they always come in pair, prolly originate from the days of LAMP stack.

js is more associated with Mongo, another bad db. Most modern js projects (or any modern project really, except PHP) use Postgres

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It’s because PHP’s popularity is old and Postgres used to be mid. MySQL was faster and better than Postgres.

But Postgres slowly improved and then got better than MySQL while MySQL stagnated. The most basic bugs persisted, basic features never got added and consistency never seemed to be a point of improvement.

Sorry but MySQL was not really “better” than Postgres.

I never understood back then why MySQL was the default choice for so many people.

Many claim that MySQL with default configs had various advantages over postgres with default config and that it had a far better replication story

MySQL would also silently lose your data

You win some you lose some

20 years ago LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack ~is~ was the most common combo of the web

Not sure about Apache, but Linux, MySQL and PHP is still the most common combo in terms of number of sites running it. Wordpress alone is enough to establish that.

> most common combo in terms of number of sites running it. Wordpress...

does that claim do anything for anyone? India is the most populated country on earth, so?

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