Is PHP still a relevant language in today’s day and age? I know a LOT of languages and it just never occurred to me to learn this one, because anyone I’ve ever been aware of writing a backend these days would either choose Node or one of several compiled languages. Lemmy uses Rust for it’s backend which is highly desireable, many people would have used Golang in the backend world if they desired performance and compilation, otherwise I don’t know why you wouldn’t just use Typescript. Makes it hard to contribute to IMO.
Someone here said it’s going to be hard to find contributors for kbin because they’ll go running for the hills when they see the code base. Big problem with PHP is it’s old as the hills and not properly multi-threaded, at least that’s what I’ve read.
If the author of kbin wants to move to a more modern coding platform, he better not put it off too long or he’ll end up with an insurmountable amount of tech debt.