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Programming Languages

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these are the conclusions I've reached. if you have anything against please leave it in the comments

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[–] armchair_progamer 4 points 10 months ago

IMO the 1 and only important reason is that PHP today is much different than PHP of the past. PHP's notoriety comes from its early days, but now I hear it's another general-purpose language with modern design, good IDE support, and tons of online resources. Plus it's a explicitly designed for server-side scripting, so if that's your goal it will be the best (most straightforward and supported) choice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/wt6wam/newbie_here_is_using_php_still_fine/

https://phptherightway.com/