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Re:PHP 8.3 by delfinom on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:18AM (#38405458)
>PHP got shamed for these things because people built complex, and over time unmaintainable, systems in it.

Because it was very accessible for people to get into it without being you know, a 10 year programming veteran at least.

Now all those newbies are out creating 400 npm dependency projects heh

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Re:PHP 8.3 by Timon3 on Friday November 24, 2023 @11:23AM (#38405527)
> Because it was very accessible for people to get into it without being you know, a 10 year programming veteran at least.

Sure. Wouldn't it be nice to allow these people to write better code without having to change their language?

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