When I say "optional", I mean you can just create a filename.php and start putting lines of code into it, and it'll work fine. But, these days OOP is favored by most and pretty much everyone is using it. So if you are working on code that other people have written, classes are everywhere.
A lot of Wordpress code is non-OOP, though.
No, OOP is optional in PHP.
PHP is huge and more relevant than you realise. There are many many PHP developers.
IMO one of the things holding the fediverse back is that not much of it is written in Python or PHP. Neither are "good" languages but there is a massive pool of developers and they're easy to get up and running.
You don't need to read much history to find plenty of bad things done by non-commercial entities, e.g. governments. Or churches.
It's not commerce that is the problem, it is oppression. Use of my code for oppressive purposes is the thing I want to avoid.
I wonder if Gab was invited. It would be hilarious if the only instances willing to federate with Meta were Nazis.
Yes, it can provide a SSL connection to the end-user even though you're just serving http with no cert. However it is yet another moving part that can break or be mis-configured and yet another bunch of capitalists data-mining all the things.
Naaah, Caddy is way simpler than Apache. It'll be much easier. Take a quick look at the docs and you'll see what I mean.
I have a Yoga 530, running KDE 5.24.4. The touch functionality is really broken, basically unusable. Try Gnome, anything is better than this.
It doesn't work for me, on Firefox or Chrome. Chrome reports ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR