Re:A look at modern PHP
by Supermancho on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:52PM
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> it's hard to fix mistakes made 25 years ago.
I like PHP, less and less since I started with it in the 90s. Largely because of the current stewardship and syntactical changes. Many languages move forward rapidly. A difference between PHP and, say, Python is that PHP seems to move more slowly to the same end. There are still trivially fixable problems that would qualify as breaking changes. Seems lazy. Instead, we have a bunch of hand wringing because those who make the releases are heavily involved with projects that move slowly out of fear...ostensibly because they have customers they don't want to antagonize. They might jump to another framework or language.
I like PHP, less and less since I started with it in the 90s. Largely because of the current stewardship and syntactical changes. Many languages move forward rapidly. A difference between PHP and, say, Python is that PHP seems to move more slowly to the same end. There are still trivially fixable problems that would qualify as breaking changes. Seems lazy. Instead, we have a bunch of hand wringing because those who make the releases are heavily involved with projects that move slowly out of fear...ostensibly because they have customers they don't want to antagonize. They might jump to another framework or language.