If past PHP trends are any indication.. PHP 6: "\" is an awesome new feature that makes web development more approachable. PHP 7: "\" is an awful idea, avoide

If past PHP trends are any indication.. PHP 6: "\" is an awesome new feature that makes web development more approachable. PHP 7: "\" is an awful idea, avoided by the clueful and widely denounced. You can disable it in php.ini, but that's not the default. 80% of practicing developers know none of this. PHP 8: The php.ini default changes. Gang wars erupt in the shared hosting ghetto. You can force it on or off at the code level, and a comment thread in the PHP manual contains 23 different slightly-broken copy-and-paste snippets. PHP 9: "\" doesn't exist anymore. Everyone ignores PHP 9 until three weeks before PHP 8 is EOL'd.