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).
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