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> Seriously though, not a fan of php at all but the js tooling is rocket science in comparison.

laughs in left-pad, Webpack, Grunt, ...

JavaScript tooling absolutely sucks - even for a moderate sized project, `npm install` can take many minutes, often enough because some native code has to be compiled. Webpack builds can take even longer.

In contrast, with PHP you run `composer install` and it works, no bundling or whatever required.



I think that’s what they meant - “rocket science” as in “way too complicated for 99% of down-to-earth jobs”


Back when I was doing serious work in php it was ftp (yes, no ‘s’) the php files onto an Apache box and that was it! Go went the same way, at least.




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