On Sat, Jun 29, 2024, at 17:27, Michael Morris wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 7:15 AM Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes> wrote: >> __ >> >> With a bit of finangling, you can actually port JavaScript line-for-line to >> PHP, but not the other way around. > > JavaScript uses prototypical inheritance, and any program that leverages that > aspect of it will be IMPOSSIBLE to port to PHP line for line without a > massive rewrite and restructure that amounts to a hell of a lot more than "a > bit of finangling".
This is getting a bit off-topic, but "it depends" on how it gets used. Sometimes you can use static classes and composition, sometimes you can use traits, and sometimes you can just put the behavior right on the object because it is only used "locally". There are some basic patterns of when to use each and how. It's actually pretty straightforward. It gets weird when people modify the protypes of arrays, strings, and other base-types, but people (mostly) stopped doing that ~10-15 years ago. > > As someone proficient in both languages I find that claim hilarious. But how many projects have you ported? :p > > Now granted, there's a lot of JavaScript out there written by programmers > coming from a classical inheritance background (i.e. PHP, C#, Java) who > therefore never leverage prototypical inheritance at all, and those programs > are trivial to port between the languages, but that isn't all there is to > JavaScript. Yes, this is indeed the easiest. — Rob
