Re: Future stability of PHP?

hello, On Sun, Apr 9, 2023, 1:37 AM Stephan Soller <stephan.soller@helionweb.de> wrote: > 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 (details below if you're > interested). That got me wondering about the long-term stability of PHP > (as in > language and API breaks) and I looked at the RFCs. I got the impression > that > static typing has a lot of traction now and I have no idea of what the > fallout > might be of changing a dynamically typed language into a statically > typed one. I keep reading this in multiple languages, pr even more frameworks. I understand agency work, managers pushing new features instead of a cleaning some legacy. however years of ignoring deprecation notices (very few were introduced right before 8.0). Most of them could have been fixed within a couple of hours in any code base, if they had tests. I would suggest, very very nicely, to review and rethink the development flows of these projects instead of asking php to freeze. best, Pierre