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Honestly, if you use PHP you should expect sadness

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PHP has also its upsides:

- High-quality packages (e.g. FlySystem or anything by https://thephpleague.com/)

- Very nice and mature frameworks such as Laravel.

- Pretty good OOP features

- No concurrency / async, which makes thinking about the code way easier than sometimes in Node.js

- There are high quality packages in every language.

- Likewise with mature frameworks.

- All mainstream languages have pretty good OOP features nowadays.

Thankfully yes, there is no concurrency.

what has the world come to be, where a series of commands actually running like a series of commands is hailed as an upside.

Same world since Multics.

No concurrency is a missing feature, not an upside. OOP is a broken paradigme, so no upside to be found there either.

> No concurrency is a missing feature,

That's an opinion that isn't very popular or useful.

Ignoring the multithreaded PHP runtime and fork functionality, implementing every feature (whatever user X particularly wants) in every language will never happen.

Saying OOP is a broken paradigm is irrelevant. Some people prefer it and they are users just like you, but different too.

Meh, I get paid for working with PHP. While that's not the only thing that matters, it's a pretty big thing. If that list sums up the worst of the language, I can deal with it.

Except the ternary operator thing. That gets right up my left nostril. I LOVE the ternary operator.

A day without using a ternary operator is like a day without sunshine.

Let us your language of use... My guess is that there is sadness there too

Ahh, nothing like a bit of language shaming.

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