• =?UTF-8?B?4oCcUEhQ?= language still relevant, advocate=?UTF-8?B?aW5zaXN0c+KAnQ==?=

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.misc on Fri Jan 16 21:29:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.misc

    Had a quick look at this PHP-advocacy article <https://www.zend.com/blog/is-php-still-relevant> (linked from <https://www.infoworld.com/article/4117738/php-language-still-relevant-advocate-insists.html>).
    I was particularly interested in the PHP-versus-Python table, since I
    have created a few intranet apps for customers in Python, while
    maintaining some PHP code for them as well.

    You know what word I searched for, and couldn’t find in that entire
    article? “WebSocket”. Because that’s one thing that PHP doesn’t seem
    to handle at all well. It’s becoming important for more interactive
    web-based sites, and the basic implementation model of PHP -- HTTP
    request comes in, the code runs and generates a response page, then
    exits -- is quite unsuited to the kind of ongoing full-duplex
    communication that WebSocket connections are designed for.
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