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Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.

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[–] abc@suppo.fi 16 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

PHP sucks and every attempt at defending it is pathetic.

I get warm and fuzzy feelings that people here are not even talking about it. Perhaps I should follow that trend.

[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 7 points 3 hours ago

PHP is the best web language, not because it's a good language, but because the other are worst

[–] ThunderComplex@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago

I am with you all the way. For a high level programming language it’s incredible how close to C it is at times AND how many footguns the entire language has.
And you always hear the “a poor craftsman blames his tools” analogy when someone says PHP bad. But PHP is a hammer that’ll blow your arm clean off when you hit a nail at a slightly off angle.
There is no defending it, and it should have been replaced with better languages several times over.

Ok I need to stop myself now I can rant about this language for hours