25 Years of PHP

Re:25 Years of PHP by SahAssar on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:14PM (#23479549)

Javascript has made progress too. While far from perfect and I think PHP's journey started at a worse point has has gone further JS certainly is a lot better now and the major failings of JS are of it's ecosystem and not the language itself.

I also think that both JS and PHP get a lot of flak for maintaining backwards compat as far back as they do. You can run a lot of webapps (frontend and backend) from 10-20 years back in modern PHP and browsers which is pretty amazing. I'd like them to have a modern mode (like the proposed p++/<?php2020 and modules for JS) we should still acknowledge that maintaining compat that far back is not easy.

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Re:25 Years of PHP by datasage on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:09PM (#23480223)

If you don't do that, you get the python 2 to 3 transition. Which is still going on.

PHP did drop some stuff between 5 and 7, but all of it had been marked deprecated for some time prior (often years).

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Re:25 Years of PHP by nkozyra on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:54PM (#23480012)

> Javascript has made progress too.

To be clear, this is what I was saying when I called upon it as an analog.

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Re:25 Years of PHP by SahAssar on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:16PM (#23480291)

Ah, then I misunderstood. Thanks for clearing up

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