On Fri, 14 Jun 2024, 05:39 Rokas Šleinius, <rave...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Besides, this is slightly off topic, but I don't know if you know, but > if you take a look at stackoverflow developer survey over the years, > there has been an absolute 30% drop of php popularity in the past few > years. > > I would guess this is mostly the low-level developers not being fans > of the language removing magic quotes and other "super useful" > features. In other words, PHP lost the average joe as its target > audience. Joe's gone. > > Just my 2¢: > a) this WAS the reason PHP was great and I loved to rewrite the > systems of several very successful companies who started out with > their non-technical founders who coded their way out of the box to > begin multi-million businesses > b) the PHP core and co. (a.k.a. YOU) should be acutely aware that the > language needs to be liked by not only you, dear awesome lovely > hardcore nerds, but also the users who just need to get stuff done, > business needs fulfilled. > > I know this is not how YOU work, but if you ignore that part of the > language users, there might eventually not be a language to work on in > the future. > > So please, keep the language loose, I hate the slight inconsistency > too, but if we ruin the day for another 20% of users, it might even be > the straw that broke the camel's back. > PHP's decline in popularity is not correlated with its objective improvements. If you long for older (broken) versions, they are still available. Bilge >
