Case study - Upply: The PHP advantage: How we resisted the switch to Scala, rust, or go (Symfony Blog)
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My TLDR is:

  • Their team was using PHP

  • Before doing a complete re-write they evaluated other languages

  • Rust ruled out due to cost/benefit, being the fastest in the list, but also the most complex

  • PHP kept as the main language because:

    • The ecosystem is mature
    • The PHP/Symfony (and Roadrunner) stack meets their high-performance needs

  • Inertia: their team “already had extensive experience” in it

  • They already integrated Go in some microservices

  • They aren’t locked to PHP, and will continue to evaluate these programming languages and others

  • brie@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    Because writing web apps is boring as fuck, and evaluating switching provides a reason to stop coding in PHP, and write an article about how they still need to write PHP.