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The parent comment to mine, though, said: > No one is claiming that PHP is and/or was without fault. I'm emphasizing the "is" part. "No one is claiming that P
by ragnese 6y ago
The parent comment to mine, though, said:
> No one is claiming that PHP is and/or was without fault.
I'm emphasizing the "is" part. "No one is claiming that PHP is without fault."
My comment is asserting that there are definitely people who say that PHP is not bad. I did not speak to whether anyone claims PHP was never bad.
- castis 6y agoI should have known better. My apologies, the person simias is replying to is not saying that PHP is without fault.
- nkozyra 6y agoWell let's be clear ... "bad" is a little more subjective than "faults," which can at least be qualified. By some measure, every language has warts. PHP in 2008 had a ton of them. PHP in 2020 has fewer of them. Which is a lot like JS.
- ragnese 6y agoBut if PHP in 2020 still has a TON of warts and other languages (even ones with large ecosystems) have WAY FEWER warts, does it matter if PHP has improved since 2008?
- nkozyra 6y agoAgain, I stopped messing with PHP at 5.7 and have watched 7+ grow. My daily language is Go, which I like a lot. Had or have runs with python, asp!, Perl, c#, node, delphi and used rust and Java for personal projects. I can find warts in all of them. At one point I'd have put PHP right above JavaScript and ASP down at the bottom. Now? I don't see it. Legacy issues are still there, like inconsistent standard library function names, but otherwise I don't see it - as a whole - as any more 'warty' than most of those.