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Re:PHP 7 Virtual Machine by sbarre on Monday April 17, 2017 @10:03AM (#14130913)
Most languages let you cut corners and code in a sloppy way. This is not limited to PHP.

I think anyone can show anecdotes to support "coding in [language you don't like] is bad".

Replace "unsafe" with "non-performant" and go back to early Rails days and you'll have plenty of examples where naive framework implementation led to programmers shooting themselves in the foot with the "easy way" in a different context..

Like I said, all languages and frameworks have their caveats and learning to code properly is the developer's job, and the "right way" or "best way" is often a work in progress that evolves as the community develops best practices..

Re:PHP 7 Virtual Machine by jonknee on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:07AM (#14131405)
> Most languages let you cut corners and code in a sloppy way. This is not limited to PHP.

Completely true, but for years PHP made it extraordinarily easy to shoot yourself in the foot right out of the box. register_globals for example...

http://php.net/manual/en/security.globals.php

Re:PHP 7 Virtual Machine by Revisor on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:00AM (#14137145)
Deprecated 9 years ago.