Re:Modern PHP without a framework
by cutler on Sunday April 01, 2018 @01:35AM
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For me the biggest non-starter with PHP is the abuse of doc comments and annotations as well as the sheer waste of space which has now been blessed in PSRs as the idiomatic way to write "modern" PHP. This same modern PHP often fills a full screen with only a few lines of real code. You could be forgiven for concluding that someone influential in PHP-land is trying to out-Java Java. PHP is a waste of space, literally.
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We evalued PHP for a GraphQL/REST backend and we found some really good points: the design of Symfony, the ACL system, the huge productivity gain of API Platform (https://api-platform.com/). In the end we discarded the whole stack anyway because of the heavy use of docblocks annotations which made our test code hard to read and hard to debug.