On Fri, 14 Jun 2024, 05:39 Rokas Šleinius, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Besides, this is slightly off topic, but I don't know if you know, but
> if you take a look at stackoverflow developer survey over the years,
> there has been an absolute 30% drop of php popularity in the past few
> years.
>
> I would guess this is mostly the low-level developers not being fans
> of the language removing magic quotes and other "super useful"
> features. In other words, PHP lost the average joe as its target
> audience. Joe's gone.
>
> Just my 2¢:
> a) this WAS the reason PHP was great and I loved to rewrite the
> systems of several very successful companies who started out with
> their non-technical founders who coded their way out of the box to
> begin multi-million businesses
> b) the PHP core and co. (a.k.a. YOU) should be acutely aware that the
> language needs to be liked by not only you, dear awesome lovely
> hardcore nerds, but also the users who just need to get stuff done,
> business needs fulfilled.
>
> I know this is not how YOU work, but if you ignore that part of the
> language users, there might eventually not be a language to work on in
> the future.
>
> So please, keep the language loose, I hate the slight inconsistency
> too, but if we ruin the day for another 20% of users, it might even be
> the straw that broke the camel's back.
>
PHP's decline in popularity is not correlated with its objective
improvements. If you long for older (broken) versions, they are still
available.
Bilge
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