PHP 8.5

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215 points brentroose | 2 comments | 20 Nov 25 06:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | 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. matula ◴[20 Nov 25 15:34 UTC] No.45993684[source]▶

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I've seen a few other comments also talk about PHP becoming more complex. However, I have "simple" code built using 5.3 and it works perfectly fine in 8. So I guess it CAN be complex, but doesn't really need to be. The biggest changes I would make to that code are fixing the multiple 'switch' and 'if/else' blocks to an anonymous function or some mapping... but it's not required.

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2. jaredklewis ◴[20 Nov 25 18:50 UTC] No.45996183[source]▶

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This is true. As long as only one person interacts with the code, all languages can be simple. C++ can be simple.

But once multiple people are involved and I have to read someone else's code, then I really start to appreciate languages with less features. There are some language I love to write code in, like Ruby or Haskell, where I feel like a damn genius when I write it, but want to pull my hair out when I have to read someone else's code.

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