On the plus side solid stable software can run for decades without incidents, as long as the hardware is willing. The main negative is that it's not as Supercharged™ as the latest cloud product with a 99.9% SLA, which itself relies on 5 other internal microservices with 99.9% SLA each.
> Analysts sell out - that's their business model. But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.
The question is, who is gullible enough to still believe Gartner has any value? You'd think by now even the most clueless of MBAs would have caught on.
(Lots of the criticism is exaggerated as well.)
It's 2023, can this pointless PHP bashing please stop once and for all if you're not talking about Wordpress?
In some cases, "keep it simple and stupid" is the thing to go - MediaWiki has mastered this.
As long as the cache layer is working, most people wouldn't notice an outage.
You can even get access to devops/SREs tickets (and IRC messages)
Edit: looks like it’s used. Wonder if it’s more tooling than production traffic. No time to dig further.
Seriously though, not a fan of php at all but the js tooling is rocket science in comparison.
laughs in left-pad, Webpack, Grunt, ...
JavaScript tooling absolutely sucks - even for a moderate sized project, `npm install` can take many minutes, often enough because some native code has to be compiled. Webpack builds can take even longer.
In contrast, with PHP you run `composer install` and it works, no bundling or whatever required.
Also php is robust as fuck