PHP

“WordPress, most popular platform for hosting content. That's out there is running a programming language called PHP, not the most efficient programming language.”

“We will eventually do PHP and Ruby, but we also, I think, care a lot about the details, and so the Essentially the reason why we haven't done it yet is because we do invest substantial amount of time to make the DX actually good and feel native to the ecosyste…”

“Until 2023, Being really good at coding, whether that was JavaScript, Python, PHP, or anything else, meant you had essentially 10 X or more the earning potential and the ability to build quality solutions than everybody else in the world. And that has been the…”

“And so we are still I think for like a decade or so at least going to have software developers that work in, in lots of old school, you know, PHP code and COBOL code and all that stuff.”

“I've been using the exact same stack for the past 10 years, pretty much since I started coding. I'm actually using PHP, which a lot of developer likes to make fun of with this PHP framework called Laravel.”

“For the first time in history, you actually could. All these companies with big climbing, Microsoft would ship every three years with a service pack once a year. It's a whole new era where all you have to do is, you know, upload some new PHP code to the FTP se…”

“In the context of, like, post customer one and two, I think at that point we started saying, okay, let's actually think about every possible customer that is using Stack Overflow, so we actually had that very specific list of the largest users company-wise, an…”

“He used to be the global release manager of PHP, so that's also really cool when we, you know, when we're looking for tech talent, it's never a problem to find anyone.”

“The way they scaled Facebook was to have a completely separate PHP instance running for every school that they copy and pasted the code to. They would have a separate MySQL server for every school, and they would have like a memcache instance for every school.”

“In hindsight, the thing we did right is we didn't try to peel off one of our developers that is a PHP developer to go learn React Native is we just said, hey, let's go spend the 20 grand that this will cost and hire the specialists.”