“PHP was so easy and fast that they’ve built such a successful startup they now have scaling problems” is, as far as I can tell, an endorsement of PHP and not a criticism of it.
“PHP was so easy and fast that they’ve built such a successful startup they now have scaling problems” is, as far as I can tell, an endorsement of PHP and not a criticism of it.
I think the point here is that the scaling problem is hard because of PHP.
Scaling can be hard in PHP at the same time GGP comment's about PHP being in productive hands and thus being one of the reasons why PHP worked for them. Both of these can be true at the same time.
And for what its worth, Typescript scaling, although better than PHP is still somewhat of an issue and If you want to have massive scaling, Elixir/ (to-an-extent gleam) are developed for solving the scalability problem especially with Phoenix framework in Elixir-land.
So I guess, jack_pp comment's about PHP can also be applied to an degree towards Typescript as well so we should all use elixir, and also within the TS framework the question can be asked for (sveltekit/solid vs next-js/react)
I am more on the svelte side of things but I see people who love react and same for those who love PHP. So my opinion is sort of that everyone can run in their own languages.
Golang is another language to be taken into consideration especially with Htmx/datastar-go/alpine.
Scaling in PHP is easy. Has never actually been an issue in my entire career unless it was a badly designed database.
Yes, startup success has a direct correlation to the language chosen for your CRUD api…