One thing I still love about PHP is that it's so easy to deploy.
No need for fancy Amazon Web Shmervices, no need for Jamstack jumping through the hoops.
Just find any host that supports PHP, upload your file, and done.
No need for fancy Amazon Web Shmervices, no need for Jamstack jumping through the hoops.
Just find any host that supports PHP, upload your file, and done.
"Jamstack" sites, in their simple form, or even combined with a modest number of lambda functions, can be deployed to github pages / netlify / vercel and a number of other platforms for free. Push a commit to github, get an automatic deployment going, boom, done. I am not aware of any analogues in the php ecosystem.
For JAMStack, just git push and done. I don't see PHP is easier ;)
With PHP you can just drop it anywhere in the htdocs and done.
Don’t get me started on concurrency either...
PHP solves concurrency very well - it just passes the problem to the web server.
If you need multithreading to service a http request then you are either doing something wrong, or over-engineering the problem. Other language platforms also service requests in a single thread, including Node.
Contrast that with going up one major version in Scala where all I need to do is fix the compile errors and then I’m confident it won’t surprise me with runtime errors.