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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by tonyedgecombe on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:42AM (#24154526)
It seems every language has a group of people with an unrelenting urge to turn it into Java.
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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by ragnese on Friday August 14, 2020 @06:46AM (#24156250)
Really? What languages in particular? Even Java doesn't want to be Java anymore (see the "inspiration" it's taking from Kotlin and others in recent/next versions). PHP is the only language that seems to be chasing Java to me.
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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by karlerss on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:25AM (#24154874)
As long as weak typing is not abandoned, the Java-like language features are great.

I am really looking forward to generics in PHP.

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Re:What's new in PHP 8? by tonyedgecombe on Saturday August 15, 2020 @02:55AM (#24166645)
Weak typing and generics, isn't that the worst of both worlds?
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