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Sometimes while reading/writing modern PHP it feels like it's more functional than OOP. It's definitely easier for your code to be pure and simple instead of be

Sometimes while reading/writing modern PHP it feels like it's more functional than OOP. It's definitely easier for your code to be pure and simple instead of becoming a stateful mess. To make it a stateful mess you'd have to go against many modern best practices. I think I don't really understand what kind of Java monsters people have worked with in the past. I will explicitly exclude legacy code from my previous statement, where globals, static calls with side effects, stateful objects and inheritance abuse were common. Now if only I had all the advanced type system features :/.

conradfr 8y ago
You can see the Java AbstractInterfaceFactory creeping if you do Symfony development (which anyway is an impressive framework and very well run project). Sometimes it feels Php devs have an inferiority complex and want to use as many design patterns as possible to feel like a real engineer. Two years ago suddenly everyone wants to add DDD or hexagonal design on top of the framework. Bye bye KISS, hello boilerplate everywhere.