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Just had a talk with an actual good recruiter. I feel weird. Like he actually knew what he was talking about, knew that php is dead and only showed relevant jobs???

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  • 5
    Dead.... 😂
    Ah the funny this could have been.
  • 12
    php is not dead lol,
  • 3
    Not all recruiters are bad. If you know that you struggle to find what you want, or you struggle to bargain a good salary then they could well be worthwhile using.

    It's certainly in their interest to get you the highest salary possible, as their commission payment will generally be based on a percentage of that.
  • 1
    @Linux it is here, i know of 3 companies that dont just do legacy code or wordpress
  • 5
    PHP may be shitty and all, but dead? 33% of top 10mil websites run WordPress alone, not to mention other CMSes and custom apps...
  • 1
    wow, a recruiter that doesn't suck balls

    I would actually get his number, I'm not even gay, but that guy is a treasure
  • 0
    @ganjaman what do they use instead?
  • 0
    @FelisPhasma i see a lot of java and python
  • 1
    @ganjaman I feel like both of those are worse than PHP. Don’t get me wrong, I love python but PHP and html work very nicely together. I also don’t understand all the php hate, it is not a bad language at all.
  • 2
    @FelisPhasma if you mean echo("<html>..."), then this conversation is over
  • 0
    @ganjaman No... I mean you can very easily integrate php into your html. Something like:
    <?php
    # some starting logic
    ?>
    <html>
    <head>
    <title><?=$somevar?></title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id=“main”>
    <?php
    # some more stuff
    ?>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

    I like that a lot more than storing my html page as a string in python and string formatting or whatever.

    The one thing I don’t like as much about php is how form processing is done, but I’ve gotten used to it.
  • 3
    @FelisPhasma yeah, okay, this conversation is over
  • 2
    I feel php has been improving a lot in the 7+ versions.
  • 1
    @FelisPhasma but just in case you are a beginner

    1) this is called templating, its done server side and nobody uses it cause it strains servers unnecessarily
    2) any other language can do it, there are 958385 templating engines
    3) 99% of new webapps is a js app, communicating with backend through json, and php is the last language id use for that since yes, as you said, its main purpose is templating
  • 4
    @ganjaman

    wow 3 places that defines what a language is, someone should get out of his bubble
  • 1
    @Linux understanding that sentence took me way more than it should have
  • 0
    @ganjaman

    but you understood it atlast
  • 0
    As long as WordPress exists PHP is still init
  • 0
    Laravel developers seem pretty popular here.
  • 3
    Neither PHP nor Ruby are dead.
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