Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if "PHP is still relevant?" Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway... happy birthday!

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[–] petersr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What's your alternative for web development?

Server side rendered content can only get you so far.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Webassembly frameworks.

Blazor! But only because I'm a dotnet guy professionally.

Yew? I'm not good enough with Rust to have tried it.

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasm cannot modify the DOM iirc

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've toyed with WASM, creating a simple sudoku page, and it did take an empty page, added all the buttons, and then changed them upon user interaction.

I think, I also heard of the DOM modification limitations, but it's not a hard barrier afaik, there are just some cases where it can't

But still, doing something in (pure) WASM looks way harder than needed to me

[–] petersr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Dotnet professionally and using lemmy.ml socially is hilarious to me and (sincerely) entirely consistent. Makes perfect sense, I just find it funny. (I'm not being sarcastic or attacking you, might not be clear lol)

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Right? That's the mindset that brought us asp, jsp, and php. JS might be obnoxious, but it's the only viable client-side right now.