Why is nobody reading the damn article?
>I hope I was able to show you that PHP has evolved tremendously over the past years, and you're perfectly able to write clean and maintainable code with it.
>I hope I was able to show you that PHP has evolved tremendously over the past years, and you're perfectly able to write clean and maintainable code with it.
In other words, it seems too similar to languages that I already know to be worth learning. Lisp was fun to learn because it is an alien language. C was worth learning because of its usability and centrality to modern computing. The only benefit I can see from learning php is being able to understand more of software history. Cool but I'd rather learn another lisp.
Does anyone disagree with my analysis? I wish the language well but I don't see what it offers me. Obviously it offers a lot to the people who see JS as franken-php and so forth.
Union types are cool though.