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PHP mentions (56)

• PHP's Biggest Problem

  The PHP website is indeed one of the worst parts of the whole ecosystem. Just look at the landingpage (https://php.net) and compare it with those of other languages. There's not a single piece of PHP code on the page. No "what is PHP", no "why should I use it", and no "that's why PHP is great". It's just a news page showing the latest releases, and a small section for downloading PHP. And speaking of the website:... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Self Hostable Multi-Location Uptime Monitoring

  My initial idea was to leverage the main application’s queue worker by deploying a queue worker remotely and setting up a secure connection between them using something like Wireguard. Vigilant is written in PHP using the Laravel framework, for queuing it uses Laravel Horizon. This is a queuing system built on top of Redis. All monitoring tasks in Vigilant are executed on this queue, it allows for multiple queues... - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• The Lost Art of Reading Documentation

  I remember being 15 (18 years ago 🥲) and learning PHP. Stack Overflow wasn’t as big yet, and finding answers often meant digging through forums filled with half-baked solutions, each dependent on specific hosting configurations. There was no universal standard, some hosts supported certain php.ini settings while others didn’t. The only reliable resource? The official PHP documentation: php.net. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Using named arguments in php8 and up

  That's the first I've heard of it, and I like it! I can't tell you the number of trips to php.net to look at argument order for a function. Is it haystack/needle, or needle/haystack? Of course it could turn into the same thing w/ argument names (is it whole_name or full_name?), but I'm going to use it. Source: about 3 years ago

• How to display results from multiple SQL queries in the same table cell?

  Prepare to spend a fair bit of time reading and going back to phptherightway.com and php.net. I've also found this Tutorial from Envato Tuts+ to be quite good. Source: about 3 years ago

Mint Lang mentions (13)

• Does Anybody Like React?

  Initially I didn't see the value in React. I thought that the whole virtual DOM compiling on every change was a waste of resources instead of just doing the change itself directly. But as it turns out it's a great abstraction worth using for the right things (not every part of the web) and one of those are Single Page Applicaitons. A lot of comments here are about people linking JSX instead of React and that's a... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

  Check out Mint (https://mint-lang.com), it's s language where everything is built in: small to mid size projects can be built without any third party dependencies and JS interop is easy. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue

  It's nice to see that we are converging on the same syntax I came up for Mint (https://mint-lang.com) 8 years ago (feels strange to write it down). I saw Ripple some time ago its syntax has the same structure more or less (component, style, render, state, etc...). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ripple: The Elegant TypeScript UI Framework

  It's very similar to Mint (https://mint-lang.com/) which I'm building for some time now. Looking at the samples, it seems Ripple is going the same direction as Mint: - explicit component definitions - inlined control flow in HTML tags - component based styling - explicit white space handling for element content - syntax for setting references I'm not sure why they based it on TypeScript instead of creating a new... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

  Looks pretty cool. I see some similarities with Mint language https://mint-lang.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago