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Why do I have to laugh when I read the new feature list? Why are people still using this? One negative aspect of open source is that it prevents failed techno
by BUGHUNTER 14y ago
Why do I have to laugh when I read the new feature list?
Why are people still using this?
One negative aspect of open source is that it prevents failed technologies from disappearing.
- pilif 14y ago> Why do I have to laugh when I read the new feature list? yeah. Why? What particular items makes you laugh?
- moondowner 14y agoLet's start with "support for finally in try/catch blocks". In 2012 this is a new feature?
- pilif 14y agoSo far it was argued that by virtue of having no memory management, there will be nothing that needs to be freed and hence no finally clause would be needed. Of course this was flawed reasoning as there are still many other resources that will require manual freeing, so now the problem has been fixed. While it was bad that the flawed reasoning existed in the first place. I don't see how fixing bad assumptions made a decade ago is laughable.
- bpatrianakos 14y agoLet's not argue here. Obviously he's a cool kid and we should all learn a thing or two from him. Like how to be the very last person here who still thinks its fun to take pot shots at PHP.
- shakesbeard 14y agoSo PHP would be better off without adding a missing feature? I don't get your reasoning.
- ihsw 14y agoIt wasn't reasoning, he's just taking cheap shots at PHP -- effectively ranting rather than making an thoughtful argument.
- Kudos 14y agoI'm not PHP's biggest fan, but you have a strange metric for success.
- givan 14y agoI guess that the reason you don't understand why php is so popular is that you never built anything, you probably just play with the latest cool language building toy projects as a hobby.
- Kudos 14y agoThere's no need to be a douche just because the parent was. You're making yourself look like a one language pony.
- givan 14y agoPHP being popular is a fact, that doesn't mean that I use or advise using php only. And the fact that lots of people that don't understand that syntactic sugar is not the only thing that matter in a language always bash popular languages that are not "cool" is a very common symptom that describes my previous comment very well. And there is a third fact, that "sensitive" people like you that don't like strong opinions like mine feel the urge to disagree in a way that adds no value to the conversation and ironically call others "douche".
- Kudos 14y agoYou extrapolated some fantasy and strawmanned the parent, that makes you a douche. > I guess that the reason you don't understand why php is so popular is that you never built anything. What. > you probably just play with the latest cool language building toy projects as a hobby. Is that meant to be disparaging? It reeks of someone who doesn't know a whole lot beyond the PHP ecosystem. There isn't a dichotomy of PHP and then "cool" languages. I think PHP is useful in certain scenarios but acting like a zealot (or as you like to call it having "strong opinions") over it is fucking stupid.
- givan 14y ago> What. So I guess you also don't understand why PHP is popular. > It reeks of someone who doesn't know a whole lot beyond the PHP ecosystem. You are now making some "fantasy" assumptions. You missed the point from the beginning and now you are trying to take this into mud with all kind of assumptions and insults. I'm stopping here.