On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 11:09 AM Mike Schinkel <m...@newclarity.net> wrote:
> > > and I'm fairly certain after keeping up with the thread that it is > almost universally not what people want. Most people just want the toolbox > be "finished" so to speak, not get a completely new one in addition that > has no compatibility with the old one. > > I get it. I am no longer proposing an alternative to the autoloader. PHP > developers are comfortable with autoloading and that is that. > > But that does not mean that I cannot tell you and others the emperor has > no clothes in hopes that people eventually see that there can be better > alternatives. > > -Mike I'm not sure that constantly reiterating a point that everyone already knows but simply disagrees with is productive for the list, considering that the objection boils down to "but I don't like it" instead of "here are the concrete technical drawbacks". All of the objections you had seemed to be from the perspective "but what if the developer is only allowed 100 files on disk and only uses notepad to edit the code?" I don't think those are technical drawbacks personally, I think those are developers that need to at least start programming like they are living in 2005. Jordan
