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  • Most of the hate for php was born back in version 3 or 4, when it was a mess. Also a lot of people who where in college in those years learned php as a first language.

    Combine a language that does not enforce good coding practices and a lot of people making their first website, and you get some pretty horrible codebases.

    As part of my job is to maintain legacy php websites, I’ve seen lovercraftian nightmares. I love modern php, but I get where all this hate is coming from.


  • Modernizing that project would be a nightmare. It’s maybe the code base with the most plug-ins, and they should be supported while deprecating and gradually phasibg them out.

    I’m working with a client that’s built more code in custom plug-ins than Wordpress itself, I’m ambivalent on them not using a more modern code. On one hand it’s hard to work with what Wordpress is right now, on the other rewriting all of those plug-ins is a monumental task.

    But yeah, at least use git.