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From: gunnard@gunnard.org (Gunnard engebreth) On 4/11/23 3:09 PM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote: > On 08/04/2023 19:36, Stephan Soller wrote: >> >> >> A few days ago I migrated a project from PHP 7.1 to 8.2 and the >> amount of >> deprecations and fatal errors spooked me a bit (details below if you're >> interested). That got me wondering about the long-term stability of >> PHP (as in >> language and API breaks) and I looked at the RFCs. I got the >> impression that >> static typing has a lot of traction now and I have no idea of what >> the fallout >> might be of changing a dynamically typed language into a statically >> typed one. >> Also API breaks seem to become more frequent (e.g. utf8_decode). I >> stumbled >> across the language evolution RFC proposals but it seems that >> approach was >> abandoned. > > I think the php focus has shifted from its original ethos. PHP was > designed to be a tool to access sql databases and so the language was > quite simple. > > Now php has become so difficult that people are asking what is the > point pf PHP when programming languages such as c# or C or C++ or JS > can do everything. It is difficult to learn these languages but so is > PHP because it is becoming more like a desktop programming language. > Might as well spend time learning main stream programming languages. > > PHP should focus on one thing and one thing only and that is to be the > simplest tool for sql servers, mainly MySQL but also try supporting > MS-SQL and PL-SQL (Oracle's premium database system). > I think this thread's focus has shifted from its original ethos... i'll see myself out ;)