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naranha

> Magento is not exactly known for well written code

As are many/most PHP 5.6 projects

> Probably their code should not be used.

In reality it is - unfortunately. And many smaller companies don't have the capacity to change.

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Those smaller companies will find out maintenance is costly either way.

And it's worse than just maintenance cost. Do you think a good PHP dev wants to join a shop that's still on 5?

There was nothing crippling about php5 when it came out, why would it matter now? Not having some nice-to-haves like null coalescing, return types, etc are not core features. The biggest php7 selling point was speed improvements, which isn't even on some lists (https://feryn.eu/blog/php-7-is-now-available-new-features-im...)

Agreed with both statements, but things need to move forward.

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