It's still kickin'. I left the PHP world a few years ago, but I still have to go back occasionally to manage a few old projects. I recently upgraded one to PHP

It's still kickin'. I left the PHP world a few years ago, but I still have to go back occasionally to manage a few old projects. I recently upgraded one to PHP 7.*. It's soooooo much faster than older versions I consider it a must have for anyone working on PHP. That said one thing I don't regret is not having to deal with composer again. It's basically a shittier version of npm, with a fraction of the speed and a fraction of the logic built in. I have projects that have installs that aren't idempotent due to weird composer caching issues. Composer is a good thing but I can't help but wonder if PHP simply isn't fast enough of a language to build a package manager in.