On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 5:47 PM Dan Liebner <dlieb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with the OP's sentiment here. If I was starting a codebase from > scratch today, I'd probably go with Node. I find that writing modern > JavaScript is way easier than writing PHP these days, and the breaking > changes in newer PHP versions make writing code harder rather than easier. > PHP is the foundation for many legacy codebases, and breaking old projects > isn't really a great selling point of new PHP versions. > > Hopefully this scenario will affect enough people that 7.4 will continue to > be maintained by some group of people into the foreseeable future. > > Best, > Dan >
Can't disagree with this statement. I love PHP. I have been working with it for 13 years now. I can also make things work with PHP 8+ and I get what it brings. But the cost is catastrophic. If you have a legacy codebase hanging over your head you probably know how hard it is to upgrade it. If you have greenfield project with SA and 100% coverage, it's a peach. But what's the point of starting a greenfield project in PHP while Typescript is right there? The cost of PHP maintenance and it's bad reputation certainly makes it a language only for those that got hooked into it a decade ago and not something that makes sense to recommend for newcomers. With each deprecation, PHP pushes out more devs and companies into a different path. >
