WAMPs or LAMPs or XAMPPs

[sen5241b]

I have never coded on a WAMP. I experimented with them over 10 years ago and was not impressed. It appears WAMPs have improved much since then. I don't know much about XAMPPs. Three questions:

What is your preference and why?

What are the pros and cons of each? 

How portable is code back and forth between the various -AMPs?

Edited May 14, 2021 by sen5241b

[NotSunfighter]

I have used wamp since to early 2000's. It was hard to install then. I have installed it on every new computer (about once every 2~3 years) and have had no problems, maybe cause I know what I need or where to get the information. I have never figured out how to get xamp up and running.

You'll need to google the pros and cons. A;; I can tell you is wamp is larger then 4x.

Code is code so portable.

[maxxd]

I use docker for all my setups. Base your image on the official PHP image and go from there. Complete portability, as long as the host machine has docker installed.

[sen5241b]

Seems like there is a bigger push towards OS independent development platforms. 

[vNt_2704]

I use laragon.

[Cloud_Geek]

WAMP and XAMPP both have alot of similarities but little differences. I prefer to use XAMPP because of its features. XAMPP is better because it supports wide variety of operating systems whereas WAMP is limited to 32 or 64 bit Operating System. Another winning point of XAMPP is that it has much smaller File size as compared to WAMP.