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Php change from 4.x to 5.x broke my web sites and I still don't trust php after that. I guess they might do it again from 7.x to 8.x, we'll see. If having the

• sdflhasjd 5y ago
  PHP are deprecating language "features" from 7.x to 7.y. It's very hard for me to treat a language seriously when I could write code that simply won't be valid PHP in 2 years time, or worse, behaving differently. Given the severity of some past PHP vulnerabilities, being on an old version can certainly be a problem. > I guess they might do it again from 7.x to 8.x, we'll see. PHP 8 has some _massive_ breaking changes
• cblconfederate 5y ago
  I found the transition from 4 to 7 oddly easy, but that might just be the conventions i was using. I don't know about 8, don't plan to use it until i have to
• Viliam1234 5y ago
  I made my homepage in PHP, nothing important, but I spent some time doing it and I liked the result. Then I didn't have enough time to maintain it, and I stopped paying attention to it for a while. Later I checked my homepage again, the webhosting company updated the PHP version, nothing works anymore. It is not simple to fix, so I gave up. I am not going to spend the same amount of effort on making my homepage in PHP again. Trust is easier lost than gained. I would still be willing to code something in PHP for someone else, because hey, if it stops working in a year or two, it's their problem, not mine. But I would warn them that something like this is possible, and in my opinion likely to happen.