Re: Changing fundamental language behaviors
| From: | Mike Schinkel | Date: | Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:16:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Changing fundamental language behaviors | ||
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> How many of those are actually developers? Because the way I understand this numbers,
> "powering the web", that doesn't mean 34% are also developers. It wouldn't
> surprise me if a big portion of these applications could've also be a system written in another
> language, deployed, plugins installed, added some themes and done, no PHP knowledge required.
Most WordPress users are *not* programmers.
Which is why introducing breaking changes to PHP will potentially affect them so negatively; because
they have no programmers on staff nor any skill to fix the problem. Which means they will have to
hire expensive programmers — like me!!! — to fix a problem that from their perspective they do
not understand nor will even recognize a benefit when the code is "fixed."
Again, I am just presenting this perspective on this list. Those who vote on this list will decide
if breaking WordPress end-user's site bothers them or not.
-Mike
P.S. I am writing during a break at a WordPress conference, ironically.