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> It started clumsy, true, but it became a solid and quite elegant way of doing things. No. Just no. PHP will not be solid and elegant by evolution. It might h
by vegai_ 5y ago
> It started clumsy, true, but it became a solid and quite elegant way of doing things.
No. Just no. PHP will not be solid and elegant by evolution. It might have become an excellent tool for the area it's supposed to be used in, but the only way it could ever become elegant is if it had its python2=>python3 sort of moment. They would need to break it to fix it.
I don't think they'll do that, since I think they understand that it doesn't matter at all that the language sucks.
- scoopertrooper 5y agoI don’t think breaking python2 did a lot to improve python 3.
- vegai_ 5y agoThat's probably because python2 wasn't that broken to begin with. But fixed character encodings was totally worth it. I think the only mistake they made was related to how long they kept supporting python2 -- but I'm sure there were good reasons for doing that.