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You can't let web software sit on a stack that does not get security updates. The last release of PHP 5 was less than 5 years ago. Javascript from 20 years ag
by JonathanBeuys 3y ago
You can't let web software sit on a stack that does not get security updates.
The last release of PHP 5 was less than 5 years ago.
Javascript from 20 years ago still works fine. That's the way it should be.
- gog 3y agoIf you are upgrading your web software stack, why aren't you upgrading your web software?
- withinboredom 3y agoThere are services you can pay for that backport security fixes to old versions of php.
- danogentili 3y agoJavascript is a client-side language, you don't have control of the software stack, thus (ideally, if you want to) you have to write code to support every version, even a prehistoric chrome build from 2015 (be it directly or indirectly via transpiling and polyfills). PHP is not like that, like in every other language where you can control the entire environment, it evolves and things break, and that's the way it should be, that's why we have semantic versioning.