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I have no idea how the development of the PHP language works, but most languages are supported by their community, no? The amount of morons contributing the lan

I have no idea how the development of the PHP language works, but most languages are supported by their community, no? The amount of morons contributing the language tends to scale linearly with the amount of morons using it. Also, I'm sure most of this has been fixed, but it sure sounds like a terrible language... https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

kyriakos 8y ago
The community contributing in the PHP runtime and the community developing projects in PHP are two separate things. While the language itself has been evolving there are still a lot of bad quality PHP based projects and this has to do more with the low barrier of entry rather than PHP being a bad language on its own or the people contributing in it being bad developers. The last few years there's been a lot of good effort put in the language itself and it shows with the latest releases.
Aeolun 8y ago
Most of all the stuff in the fractal of bad design is still there, which is mostly caused by PHP 7.2 still being more or less compatible with PHP 4, which is basically the strength of PHP. There’s better solutions to almost all of those issues now though.