alt Hacker News> Irrational hatred aside, that's literally what PHP was designed for.
Yes, in 2005 you choose PHP, but in 20 years of operation, you don't revisit reconsider your architectural considerations? A fantastic avenue for hardening any product would be to replace a ~2MSLOC component (the PHP interpreter) with a 10K SLOC daemon that does only what you need.
When you're a startup, expediency and funding prevent this, but by the time you're selling "solutions" and baking designs into ASICs you could have prevented this attack by putting a fraction of the effort into software.
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deadbunny • today at 8:54 PM
At which point during that 20 years do you decide to rewrite a ton of your production code just to change languages?
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This is great to say with the benefit of hindsight but nobody is changing the underlying language of their well established product for literally no reason.
And that is even with the assumption that other languages don't have issues - they do.