> Specifically, do experienced PHP programmers stick to a subset of PHP, as in "PHP: The good parts"? See: https://phptherightway.com https://phptherightway.co

> Specifically, do experienced PHP programmers stick to a subset of PHP, as in "PHP: The good parts"? See: https://phptherightway.com https://phptherightway.com Modern PHP development comes in the form of loading dependencies from Composer/Packagist, rather than offloading a lot of bloat to the language. Lots of things have been deprecated (and even removed, like ext/mcrypt).