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Re:PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it? by hakfoo on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:07AM (#35663841)
What I like about PHP is that it's not just batteries-included, it's "Entire Batteries Plus Store Included". The standard library is huge, documented, and also features 15 years of accumulated notes and discussion right on php.net.

The tendency to have a npm package for everything is overwhelming because you end up with choice paralysis and risk on picking "Oh, you picked CSV-to-array library #823, it's the buggy/insecure/unmaintained one."

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Re:PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it? by eurasiantiger on Saturday April 22, 2023 @09:38AM (#35666507)
File reading excluded, CSV to array is like two generator functions and a main, even with rudimentary schema support. No reason to add a dependency at all.
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