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One wonders, why is a minor release announcement for PHP on the front page?

• tobinfekkes 2y ago
  Maybe it's like the silent majority: PHP developers have been made fun of for so long, they don't speak up. But there's millions of them hanging around the interwebs, keeping everyday systems maintained for normal people that are not flashy, but simply get the job done because it's stable and works. Source: a PHP developer ;P But I agree, a minor release is hardly news worthy
  • pilif 2y ago
    None the less - this was a scheduled minor release with no new features and no security relevant patches. As a PHP developer myself, I'm still not clear as to why that warrants a submission to HN, much less a promotion to the front page.
    • DidYaWipe 2y ago
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    • Aloha 2y ago
      Because someone submitted it, and the collective here found it interesting.
    • dizhn 2y ago
      One if this week's most resilient and popular posts about someone licking some tape.
  • forgetfreeman 2y ago
    Eh, we aren't that traumatized. A decade and change of watching other groups of coders stick forks in outlets chasing Google's codebase has done wonders for our self esteem.
  • darthrupert 2y ago
    Is it really php developers that have been made fun of? I thought it was php itself that gets ridicule.
• mckravchyk 2y ago
  This is a sabotage so the next major release doesn't get any attention ;)