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None the less - this was a scheduled minor release with no new features and no security relevant patches.

As a PHP developer myself, I'm still not clear as to why that warrants a submission to HN, much less a promotion to the front page.

Because someone submitted it, and the collective here found it interesting.

One if this week's most resilient and popular posts about someone licking some tape.

Is it really php developers that have been made fun of? I thought it was php itself that gets ridicule.

Eh, we aren't that traumatized. A decade and change of watching other groups of coders stick forks in outlets chasing Google's codebase has done wonders for our self esteem.