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Newbies want a compelling catchphrase:

C: So powerful you can shoot your foot off!

Rust: Now that you've shot your foot off, let's not do that a second time.

Javascript: It runs on the server and in the browser.

Typescript: It runs on the server and in the browser, now with types!

In contrast,

PHP: Not sure if I want to be a templating language or general-purpose programming language.





PHP is: see your changes by refreshing your browser. At least that was it’s initial appeal.

Not the ability to mix SQL injection vulnerabilities into the middle of your HTML?

Regardless, you’re thinking of Perl/CGI. PHP did attract the Perl crowd away from Perl, but it wasn’t for that reason. That was already the norm.




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