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ruby now delete this thread

>>56398743
Depends, they do different things. PHP was designed around being a script, i.e. a request comes in, php goes "ok so what database are we using. Mysql? Great let me load that library off the hard drive" then 0.00001 seconds later "Hey a new request has come in. What database are we using again? Where did I put that library file?"

Ruby and other web frameworks were designed to have a constantly running process with objects for databases, models, etc..

For almost all of your small needs like https://parm.niles.xyz or some other site, PHP is better than the abstraction hell that is ruby. One is not objectively better than the other, if you ignore syntax and everything listed in the article "PHP - A fractal of bad design"

Ruby. PHP's only advantage is in speed. Otherwise, it is physically painful to program in, and will make you feel less intelligent as a person. If you need fast web development though, I recommend Node.js. It's not that Javascript is a good language, so much as it's not as horrible a language as PHP.

At risk of sounding like bait, why is PHP so bad? I rather like the syntax coming from a C background.

>>56400813

Inconsistency in library function names
Inconsistency in syntax with most C-like languages (the ternary operator in particular is bass-ackwards with its associativity)

And a host of other small grievances. I'm a C programmer, and there are plenty of languages I'd rather write in than PHP.