blu256

@blu256@floss.social

Likes technology, science fiction, fantasy, music, cult movies.

Undergrad student of cultural studies. Hobbyist programmer. Trinity Desktop Environment contributor. Haiku enthusiast.

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array, to php
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My first was 8.0, still in school, and I confess that I began learning it with the prejudice of it being a junky, terrible language everybody was making fun of. Fast forward ~1 year later, after finishing my internship, where I used full stack mainly, and having discovered that not only it wasn't that bad, but really a pleasure to work with. Not perfect, but perfectly suitable for its use cases and, what's perfect anyway? So reading this has been a joy. :D https://developerjoy.co/blog/php-doesnt-suck-anymore

blu256,

@array PHP still has some syntax which feels questionable or at least strange (e.g. \ for namespaces) but otherwise it has certainly gotten better. My first PHP was version 5, nice times :')

blu256,

@array You are right. But reverse slash for namespaces still doesn't feel right for me at least 😅

PHP8 was a major leap forward for the language IMHO, and I hope it continues to improve. PHP5 wasn't that different, it was still PHP after all, but it sure felt much more restricting and quirky. 🙃

blu256,

@array It was indeed nice to see explicit types arrive in ~PHP7 (I mainly write in C++ so the feature felt somehow right for me). I don't know about Laravel, I seldom use frameworks. I'm a hobbyist after all, so it works for my projects.

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