It it written using Symfony which is an extremely solid enterprise framework modeled on Java Spring.

PHP powers the majority of the web still and also has one of the largest development communities, proof of this usefulness is how many contributions have been made in the last few days: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls

In the long run it will probably be a great advantage to Kbin to be written in PHP and for anyone who hasn’t seen the latest versions of PHP go look at the source code and have a look at all the recent improvements to the language.

Why do you say it has a negative reputation? I’m in the PHP community and a lot of great things have happened in the last decade, there’s tons of positive momentum and the language has matured a lot.

it is written in PHP. Lemmy is in Rust if you want to switch.

PHP was bad. It’s just that webdevs love to try new stuff, and PHP is an old man, so they kept this reputation in their mind.

It’s cool to hate on PHP, but as somebody who codes in PHP daily in a professional capacity, and has experience with C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript and many others, it’s really not a bad language if you follow decent principles.

I don’t think a lot of folks realise how much better PHP has become over the years. And kbin is written on Symfony, which is a wonderful web application framework.