Comments by "Charles M." (@charlesm.2604) on "Go in 100 Seconds" video.

I don't get why people say PHP is great for smaller projects when it's clearly one of the most scalable option to use (speed, memory usage, etc...). Why do you think the biggest back-end run on PHP, even a decade after the release of NodeJS or with other legitimate options such as Java/Go/Python ? PHP is mature, lightweight, fast, scalable and has a strong ecosystem but comes with one of the industry's worst developer experience. On top of that, PHP devs have their preferences when it comes what technology they use and that's why you won't see a lot of library for websockets, MongoDB wrappers, etc... So yeah PHP shouldn't be a first pick for every projects but not because it's "not good", simply because it's "too annoying". If you care about your sanity, go elsewhere.
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@transatlant1c I didn't receive notifications so my reply is very late: Rewriting a back-end definitely has business value, as it will not only modernize the codebase, boost performances of the services but also allow for easier modifications later on. Rewriting a back-end isn't that difficult, long or expensive anyway. You keep the databases, you keep the business logic, you keep every pieve of individual software, all you do is translate from A to B with some revisions along the way. The reason why some of the biggest back-ends still use PHP is because PHP is still a valid choice through Laravel and Symphony. In fact a lot of new projects are currently being created using PHP. I'm not a big PHP user by the way. At work we used Ruby and are starting to move onto Go more consistently.
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