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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by ergo14 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:37PM (#14765489)
> all it really adds is static typing and async

You make that sound like its not a big deal vs vanilla php.

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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by urethrafranklin on Saturday July 15, 2017 @10:50AM (#14776896)
It's really not. All the sadness and broken-ness of PHP is still there.
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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by ADefenestrator on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:35AM (#14802364)
A lot broken-ness is still left for the sake of compatibility (especially since HHVM's open-source), but Collections and type hinting make a huge difference.
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