Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript
by fpoling on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:41AM
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With Python one never knows when a particular feature code depends on will be removed. With PHP code written 15 years ago still works.
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> With PHP code written 15 years ago still works.
If you never upgrade, sure. PHP 7 and each minor version in it have deprecated and removed plenty of stuff that was legal in 5.6. PHP 8 is on track to do more of the same. I think the backwards incompatible changes are pretty much all good for the language, but claiming backwards compatibility in PHP is completely wrong.
If you aren't on PHP 8, you aren't supported, and if you're on anything earlier than 7.4, you aren't getting security releases. And the new versions released yearly all have breaking changes, and get three years of security support. It's not 2015 anymore.
Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript
by winstonewert on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @12:46AM
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What features have been removed from Python?
Besides the obvious 2 to 3 transition, cpython has obsoleted or renamed stdlib modules several times between 3.x versions. For example, the collections.abc change causes several common Linux bits to break if you change the system default to 3.8.
Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript
by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @09:35AM
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Which is a double edged sword. How many ways can one escape a string, and for how many of them will you find a stack overflow comment from a decade ago saying are the secure option to use?