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0 pointsgsk222y ago0 comments

While I applaud the recent-ish improvements to PHP, the biggest issue is still unresolved: the standard library is a mess. It is inconsistent as a rule -- in terms of function naming, argument order, error behaviors, etc.

I think this issue is probably intractable unless PHP wants to go the Python route and have a hard fork.

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tedivm2y ago

I say this as someone who hasn't professionally used PHP in about a decade, but still has a few open source projects: the arguments against PHP are silly at best, especially this particular argument. With modern IDEs it's easy to work around these quirks in the language.

ptx2y ago

OK, but are there any good arguments for PHP? Why not use something less quirky instead?

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0 pointsgsk222y ago0 comments

I think this issue is probably intractable unless PHP wants to go the Python route and have a hard fork.

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tedivm2y ago

ptx2y ago

OK, but are there any good arguments for PHP? Why not use something less quirky instead?

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