A customer will say "I need a pen" but what they really mean is "I need a written document." The value is not in selling the pen (a commodity) but in producing the document.
Produce the document and you've solved their problem. Give them a pen and you've merely made the problem obvious.
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@sarah It does have a JIT, now, and the JIT is getting better in 8.4, so it’s not so far fetched to consider long-running, single-threaded processes written in #PHP.
@stevegrunwell@sarah There’s actually a micro-optimization reason for either importing or using \ in front of internal functions/classes, and that’s because PHP will first look in the current namespace to try to resolve the symbol. It falls back to the global namespace, if it can’t find it. If you tell it exactly where it is, PHP doesn’t have to do that work.
One of the things I've learned over the last twenty years is there's plenty of work in #php.
But something else I've learned is that you need a network to find the work.
Building that network should happen in the good times. You never know when you'll need it in the lean times. Plus, having a network means having a community to support you and to be a part of - and that's never a bad thing!