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The key to becoming a person who thinks PHP is great now is to primarily use features that have existed for more than 5 years. For me, PHP 7 was PHP 5 that was
by jrumbut 6y ago
The key to becoming a person who thinks PHP is great now is to primarily use features that have existed for more than 5 years. For me, PHP 7 was PHP 5 that was faster and had some nice little bits of new syntax. They started down the type system road but I avoided it then.
Now it seems like the basic type system is in place, great. This new stuff in the article I'll probably start using it when 8.4 drops.
5 years is an exaggeration, but staying a version or two behind really helps you stay sane.
By the way I found Hack/HHVM thoroughly disappointing. Tried running some fairly complex apps on it and it felt like they reimagined the legacy baggage. Seems like PHP itself borrowed a lot of ideas from it though.