When was the last time you coded sth in PHP? I guess never.
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Replying to @mablae
I spent a bit of time writing code in Drupal. I was never very fluent in PHP. I do realize that it is possible to write decent code in PHP, but I don't think that the language supports that very well, nor is it elegant.
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Replying to @Plinz
Actually PHP today has the best packet manager in the field. The composer revolution has driven PHP to a quality level of tested SOLID code libraries that have same code quality as Java for example.
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Replying to @mablae
I have to admit that I am definitely not up to date to what happened to PHP in the last decade.
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If you are really interested take a look at the symfony codebase for example: https://github.com/symfony/symfony You can compare it to Pivotals Spring Framework and it uses many patterns from it.
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Replying to @mablae
Btw, I find it hard to fight language wars unironically. Little has changed since Lisp, Fortran, Smalltalk, Prolog and Erlang introduced every major concept. There is probably no language that offers an order of magnitude productivity gain above C.
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Replying to @mablae
Libraries and the ease of using them make all the difference IMHO. There is probably nothing that beats Wolfram Language for exploratory programming (but it is not fast enough for app development, and the licensing limits its use for scientific computing).
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According to this podcast (https://soundcloud.com/stephenwolfram/future-of-ai-civilization-ep-3#t=45:41 …), there might be an open-source microkernel of Wolfram Language in the future. And they do have a platform for developing simple web apps and an iOS runtime, but both are not very fast and stable yet.
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The web version exists for a quite some time, and there are OS clones that implement the syntax. These things were insufficient to make it catch on so far.
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I would switch to Mathematica if I could install it on all my and my students' machines without license shenanigans. I am willing to pay for specialized libraries or certain commercial usecases. Until then it's Jupyter.
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