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The two new language features bring a higher language complexity for dubious gains. For a long time now, PHP has been on a trajectory of trying to be everythin
by reaperducer 2y ago
The two new language features bring a higher language complexity for dubious gains.
For a long time now, PHP has been on a trajectory of trying to be everything to everyone, constantly bolting on features from every language that happens to drift by.
My observation has been that the people who are deeply invested in PHP are tired of being hazed online for using a "toy" language, so they're trying to adopt all of the complexity and problems of other languages, rather than just keeping things simple, which is what used to be PHP's primary strength.
- cess11 2y agoPHP was never particularly simple, it has always had a diverse standard library and lots of similar but subtly different builtins and a rather funky type system and so on. It's not for people that compulsively talk about category theory and lenses five minutes into every programming conversation.