One of my biggest issues with PHP is that it doesn't cleanly separate the app and the system.
You configure your server to work with PHP, you set up access control rules on the server for what files they can see, you enable modules.
So then you need an extra tool to manage the configuration, and lots of YAML to declare what it should be.... meanwhile with Python you just plop it in a virtualenv and pip manages all the moving parts.
It's good to see the PHP ecosystem getting tools like this! Maybe we'll see more self hostable stuff we can install with one click now!
Oh nice! I hate PHP a bit less than I did before!
One of my biggest issues with PHP is that it doesn't cleanly separate the app and the system.
You configure your server to work with PHP, you set up access control rules on the server for what files they can see, you enable modules.
So then you need an extra tool to manage the configuration, and lots of YAML to declare what it should be.... meanwhile with Python you just plop it in a virtualenv and pip manages all the moving parts.
It's good to see the PHP ecosystem getting tools like this! Maybe we'll see more self hostable stuff we can install with one click now!