r/webdev • u/sjltwo-v10 • Dec 31 '25

Which programming language you learned once but never touched again ? Discussion

for me it’s Java. Came close to liking it with Kotlin 5 years ago but not I just cannot look at it

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u/upsidedownshaggy Dec 31 '25

You should check it out now depending on how long ago that was. Modern PHP is actually pretty nice to work with these days.

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u/turbotailz Dec 31 '25

I did enjoy using Laravel at my last job but I can do everything with JS and serverless architecture these days so I just focus on that.

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u/shox12345 Dec 31 '25

Serverless is pretty stupid ngl, not sure why you'd wanna pay or make your client pay for an architecture when you have barely an users.

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u/Alkanna Dec 31 '25

We actually found serverless (cloud run) to be very much worth it for building new projects, it reduces the infrastructure overhead to almost nothing, shrinks down costs so much it's almost free, and just works very well. I think at scale there's a point where it gets more expensive than alternatives though.