Re: Future stability of PHP?

On 4/11/23 3:09 PM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:

On 08/04/2023 19:36, Stephan Soller wrote:

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. Also API breaks seem to become more frequent (e.g. utf8_decode). I stumbled across the language evolution RFC proposals but it seems that approach was abandoned.

I think the php focus has shifted from its original ethos. PHP was designed to be a tool to access sql databases and so the language was quite simple. Now php has become so difficult that people are asking what is the point pf PHP when programming languages such as c# or C or C++ or JS can do everything. It is difficult to learn these languages but so is PHP because it is becoming more like a desktop programming language. Might as well spend time learning main stream programming languages. PHP should focus on one thing and one thing only and that is to be the simplest tool for sql servers, mainly MySQL but also try supporting MS-SQL and PL-SQL (Oracle's premium database system). I think this thread's focus has shifted from its original ethos...

i'll see myself out ;)