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Re:Debian 11 by 5e92cb50239222b on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:49AM (#28180594)
Unlike previous PHP releases, 8.0 broke backwards compatibility pretty hard. Some old PHP projects that I have to support are completely unusable on 8.0. This gives me a few more years to port them, so I am all for it.
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Re:Debian 11 by miohtama on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:21PM (#28184037)
The same happened with Python 3 and it took a decade to catch up. To be fairness, it was mostly about Unicode support and applications doing stupid stuff with strings.
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