I know that Lemmy is open source and it can only get better from here on out, but I do wonder if any experts can weigh in whether the foundation is well written? Or are we building on top of 4 years worth of tech debt?

  • @platypus_plumba@sh.itjust.works
    22•1 year ago

    Mother. Of. God. Did they really write Kbin in PHP?

    I may be talking shit because I’m not a PHP coder, but the times I’ve seen it, it was a nightmare.

    • DrWorm
      16•1 year ago

      Which… makes sense. The creator of doesn’t like coding.

      I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems. I really don’t like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush.

      So PHP it born out of a dislike of coding. In turn the documentation is all over the place and inconsistent.

    • ShittyKopper [they/them]English
      7•1 year ago

      To be fair, PHP has slowly been getting it’s shit together since PHP 7, and 8 seems to be in a reasonably great shape compared to the horrors of 5.6

      • @ritswd@lemmy.world
        7•1 year ago

        It has become really solid over time.

        But it will always be a mono-threaded and interpreted technology, and therefore never a good choice for a high-scale solution like a Fediverse application.