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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by phreack on Thursday May 07, 2020 @09:25PM (#23110417)
How much of the old "A fractal of bad design" post would you say still applies? That one post showcased so many footguns right at the language level that it spooked me away from it forever.
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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by smacktoward on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:50PM (#23110919)
You can get a good sense for what "modern PHP" looks like by browsing through PHP The Right Way (https://phptherightway.com/).

PHP has grown up a lot over the last ten years.

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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by neurostimulant on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:26PM (#23110770)
A lot of those are still applies, but these days you can ignore those bad parts and only use the new good parts just like how you would use javascript. Still, I only use php occasionally but I wish it's not as eager in treating string as number in many cases.
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Re:Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal by RicardoLuis0 on Friday May 08, 2020 @12:22AM (#23111356)
if you have an hour to spare, this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ5TJCBWMg) is a great talk by Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, on the design of the language, the reason it ended up the way it did, and the ways that it is evolving for the better.
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