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PHP 8.5

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202 points brentroose | 1 comments | 20 Nov 25 06:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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inovica ◴[20 Nov 25 09:24 UTC] No.45990738[source]▶
I still love PHP. 23 years ago we created some encryption software for it and it is still going. I also run a PHP newsletter. There's still a strong community of people and whilst there are other languages which I also use (Python, Node.js) I still find myself gravitating towards PHP for fast and simple work

The only issues I have. is that this is a 'double edged sword' in that PHP has become far more complex since the launch of PHP 5 and so it isn't as easy to understand from scratch as it used to be

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1. johnisgood ◴[20 Nov 25 14:06 UTC] No.45992686[source]▶
I think PHP 8 is easy to understand if you write it from scratch, you just have to learn doing things the right way, read up on PSRs and so on. It is a bit more complex but much more secure and supports quite a lot of things now that are definitely helpful to have.