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Re:Show HN: Goofys – a faster s3fs written in Go on Monday October 19, 2015 @12:52PM (#10414086)
Congratulations then! Hope you enjoyed writing code in Go.
Re:Show HN: Goofys – a faster s3fs written in Go on Monday October 19, 2015 @12:44PM (#10414020)
I want to see benchmark comparsion with the Rust version.
Re:Mastering PHP – Free book on good modern PHP practices on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:38AM (#10374759)
Wow, SIMD.js looks neat, thank you for pointing me to this! They even has Intel involved with this.

WebAssembly looks very very promising too.

Re:Mastering PHP – Free book on good modern PHP practices on Monday October 12, 2015 @09:49AM (#10374426)
Looks interesting! I'm all in for writing secure code. Sadly, Zend said that they don't want PHP to change a lot because of backwards compatibility, and that's why we are still stuck with different bad ideas that appeared in its first versions...

PHP 7 will help to speed up Wordpress sites twice, but it doesn't help with code itself anyhow. I haven't looked at it for a long time, but back then its code was pretty bad. Drupal 8 built on top of Symfony 2 components is terrifying, as PHP's main selling point (and Drupal specifically) alwasy was simplicity.

This article gives some details on the future of the language: https://blog.amasty.com/php-7-and-script-languages-future-in...

Re:Mastering PHP – Free book on good modern PHP practices on Monday October 12, 2015 @08:45AM (#10374122)
PHP is just another tool. If we're talking about backend, then its perfomance is good enough for small to middle sized applications. PHP borrowed a lot of language features from other languages in the last decade, it's a different language now, still there is a lot of old poor written code.

PHP 7 is great for those who are already used PHP for years, cause it uses half of CPU resources doing the same tasks as PHP 5.6. I don't think there is any good reason switching from Golang for example if you are aiming for writing scalable applications; still, every experienced PHP dev I know are still getting their things done and doesn't consider switching.

Re:Show HN: My book on PHP 7 on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @06:34AM (#10345188)
Thank you for the great advice! You're right, I definitely should update my sample.