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Raúl Santos
Personal blog · borfast.com/blogprogrammingweb
Raúl Santos's personal blog at borfast.com covers programming and web. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Why *real developers* should hate PHP!”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's "I hate PHP" post to argue that PHP's design is lacking, especially how Composer dependency graphs can make it slow.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Occasionally something useful. Software and the web, mostly — in English and Portuguese, since 2002.
Most-linked posts?
- Why *real developers* should hate PHP!2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-08-01
What Hacker News says?
i half-intentionally left it out. not because it's poorly written, but because its design/architecture may be somewhat lacking. http://www.borfast.com/blog/i-hate-php (see Composer section) while i have not profiled it myself, i've certainly experienced how slow it can be with deep dependency graphs stemming from a few, common top level "require"s. i dont want its slowness to be equated to poor PHP perf in general o…
Comment linking /blog/i-hate-php
on “Introducing the new PHP on Heroku”Submitted Why *real developers* should hate PHP! as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to override and share Git configuration options between multiple directories as a story · 1 points
HN discussion