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This is really making what used to be an easy to read, easy to learn language a lot less of that. Some of us still don’t use IDEs and are okay with more thoroug
by mike503 6y ago
This is really making what used to be an easy to read, easy to learn language a lot less of that. Some of us still don’t use IDEs and are okay with more thoroughly defined code that is readable.
If people are so gung ho on adding in syntax hacks, shortcuts, etc, they seem to be bringing ideas from other languages and why not simply continue to use that other language? PHP seems to be looking more and more like Go or JS to me now. Anyone want to start a fork called “PHP Classic”? :)
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- cyberCleve 6y agoAre you saying you do not use IDEs? What is your rationale for that decision?
- mike503 6y agoNever have, never got into it. Edit directly on shell. Muscle memory, creature of habit. :) also still only write procedural PHP myself.
- throwawayboise 6y agoI just use emacs. It has enough capability to be an IDE, but I don't use it like that. I use it as an editor, maybe with a language mode to do syntax highlighting and help with formatting. I tried Visual Studio years ago, didn't care for it.
- spillguard 6y agoIs that what PHP should strive to be - the "most easy to read language available"? What does that even mean, just that there isn't any shorthand? No one is forced to use the new syntax, it's just different tools in the tool belt.
- mike503 6y agoexcept more people will wind up writing "new" PHP, and the original ecosystem in which it grew will mostly be gone.