Re: [PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP?

2023-04-15 Thread Stephan Soller
I generally come across 3 types of projects: 1. Projects that were originally developed a number of years ago and have not been updated since 2. Projects that were originally developed a number of years ago and have been updated regularly since 3. Projects that were originally developed in the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP?

2023-04-08 Thread Stephan Soller
It depends on your environment and usecase. For me Node is actually a curious case. Node itself and its APIs are very stable and the stability of each API is clearly marked in the docs. But the NPM based ecosystem is almost the exact opposite. Using it for anything else than quick experiments

Re: [PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP?

2023-04-08 Thread Stephan Soller
On 08.04.23 23:04, Ilija Tovilo wrote: > Hi Stephan > >> I'm sorry if this isn't the correct mailing list for that discussion but I >> couldn't find a more appropriate one where people actually know how the >> wind is >> blowing. > > No worries, this seems like the appropriate place. > >> Is the

[PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP?

2023-04-08 Thread Stephan Soller
Hello, I'm sorry if this isn't the correct mailing list for that discussion but I couldn't find a more appropriate one where people actually know how the wind is blowing. A few days ago I migrated a project from PHP 7.1 to 8.2 and the amount of deprecations and fatal errors spooked me a bit (d