On: 25 Years of PHP

[bovermyer]

After several years now of defaulting to Go, in the last month I've gone back to PHP (specifically Laravel) for a new project.

It's... comfortable. That's probably the best way I can describe how I feel about it. I've missed working in PHP, despite how much I enjoy Go.

[zippoxer → bovermyer]

Same. I love Go, the language, much more than PHP, but Laravel.. Laravel is really great.

I wish Go had something as convenient and complete as Laravel. Unfortunately that's impossible to achieve in a static language without polymorphism (generics) or metaprogramming.

I'm waiting for Go to introduce polymorphism and I'll be watching closely to see how 'post-generics' web frameworks make Go great again!

[cutler → zippoxer]

Have you tried the Buffalo framework? It's touted as Go's answer to Rails.

[bovermyer → cutler]

I've tried Buffalo. It's... fine, but it doesn't have the same feel as Laravel does for PHP.