René's URL Explorer Experiment


Title: Why PHP in 2026?

Open Graph Title: Why PHP in 2026? It's Actually Insanely Good Now

X Title: Why PHP in 2026? It's Actually Insanely Good Now

Description: PHP is actually insanely good now. TypeScript-level types, no build steps, immutability via readonly, enums, and more. Just write code and deploy.

Open Graph Description: PHP is actually insanely good now. TypeScript-level types, no build steps, immutability via readonly, enums, and more. Just write code and deploy.

X Description: PHP is actually insanely good now. TypeScript-level types, no build steps, immutability via readonly, enums, and more. Just write code and deploy.

Keywords:

Opengraph URL: https://whyphp.dev

X: @enunomaduro

direct link

Domain: whyphp.dev


Hey, it has json ld scripts:
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Laravel Rails/Next.js for PHP → https://laravel.com
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URLs of crawlers that visited me.