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Comment by FDETalkDotCom

13 hours ago

PHP is bananas kinds of awesome.

Yesterday, Cursor coughed up https://fdedictionary.com for me in PHP. You know what, it is like a dozen files and works awesome, no daemon needed, basically just a web server, some PHP files, and one SQLite file.

Today, Claude Code, the major hotness, made changes to a (different) toy app with less complexity, in node.js and you know what, it has ~49,000 files. And uses a 3rd party SaaS to host the db, and another 3rd party SaaS to do auth, and yet another 3rd party SaaS to import a repo and do deployments and hosting.

Simplicity has a place for some things. I love PHP+SQLite for tiny apps, and LLMs/agents are awesome at it.

I forgot, ChatGPT one-shotted the PHP app and Cursor put the finishing touches on. What a world. Long live PHP, is the point. Arrays and all.

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sandreas  13 hours ago

For Toy Apps you can even use PHP's integrated WebServer like

  php -S 0.0.0.0:8000 public/index.php

It's not for production use, but only needing one Tool can be helpful under specific circumstances.