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7·2 years agoI have used Boost on Android for years.
4·2 years agoAll of this is true. :)
Since you asked, I’ll give you a nuanced answer.
PHP is not, in itself, inherently bad. The newer versions are performant and if you are a good programmer, you can produce completely fine stuff with it.
The problem is that it’s flexibility leads to sloppy programming, which leads to projects that turn into a cluster. A good example is WordPress. I’d argue WordPress itself is well written. Once you add a dozen or so badly written plugins though it becomes a mess.
A lot of the criticism is the same that JavaScript gets. It’s a loosely typed language. So “1” is different than 1. The first is a string and the second is an integer. So if you add 1+1 you could end up with 11 instead of 2.
Again, this isn’t a problem if you’re a disciplined dev, but we’re not a breed known for our discipline ;)
When I tried Kbin it was slow, which I attributed to badly written PHP code. However, I didn’t do the research to confirm this was the case.
Eeeeehhhhh… I actually could see how this would happen. He’s not being a dick and he fixed it. Unless there’s more to the story… 🤷♂️
My issue with kbin is php. 😂
Same. I manually deleted mine.
Eloquently stated. I expected nothing less from @ShartyWaffles 😂
I see what you did there. 😂
I deleted every post and comment before deleting my account entirely earlier today. You’re right. The only way to stop Reddit from profiting off us is to not only leave, but burn our content down on the way out the door.
Yup. I checked Voat several times and checked out when I saw it was alt right bullshit.
That’s the thing that kills me. There was a time when Digg was the king. Also for a while Slashdot. We left before and we can leave again.
I am liking Lemmy so far.
I’m with you. It’s amazing how fast ChatGPT has replaced SO for me.
I’m not sure how this will work long term. How will the model get new training data?
But honestly? SO can eat a bag of dicks. It doesn’t matter if you’re asking a question that’s nowhere on the site (or the first 3 pages of Google results). It’s going to get closed and ignored.
I think most people moved to Reddit and Discord a while ago, which is also problematic. We need to get these conversations happening on the open Fediverse.