Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Ecosystem? The JS/TS ecosystem approach is to use as many libraries as possible for the sake of it, exposing you to a massive supply chain risk. PHP doesn't suffer from that because there are barely any libraries for it.


> PHP doesn't suffer from that because there are barely any libraries for it.

You don't need many libraries in a typical project, because PHP is batteries-included and if you use a framework it does all the rest for you, that is true. But there are still hundreds of thousands of packages with billions of installs:

https://packagist.org/statistics




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: