Ioannis Loukeris on PHP vs Go, Yii 3 and Russian developers
Ioannis Loukeris is a software architect at Altenar. I was greatly inspired by hist talk "Using and (slightly) abusing APCu cache in high load concurrent environments" at PHP Russia 2024 and offered him an interview. We talked about the current state of IT, education and the conference.
0:00 Ioannis' background
03:20 Coding today vs early days
14:14 Advice to people who start engineering
17:11 Learning today vs early days
23:11 PHP vs Go and other languages
31:05 The Achilles' heel of PHP and how it might be fixed
32:39 Non-dying PHP runtimes
33:46 Why Ioannis does not like promoted properties
35:45 Philosophy of playing catch up
37:19 Drawbacks of property promotion
38:30 Speed of codewriting is not an issue
40:59 Ioannis' experience at the conference
42:04 About Alexander Makarov and Yii 3 framework
44:28 The level of Russian developers and how it might improve
48:57 Is PHP dead?
49:18 Final words and advice