Comment by Yokolos | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Yokolos | Hacker News Reader

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You can do crazy things in every language. However, in a language like Java, the crazy things are more conceptual (factory for factory of factories) and not basic things like what does == mean or problems with weak typing and implicit conversions. A lot of the issues with PHP can be avoided in modern PHP using things like strict_types=1, but most of the time, we don't get to work with projects using best practices. And I'd rather work with a bad Java project than any bad PHP project (which I have had the misfortune of maintaining).

Funny that you picked == as an example when == is very counter intuitive in Java and is one of the common pitfalls for beginners:

    String a = new String();
    String b = new String();
    a = "test";
    b = a + "";
    
    if (a == "test")
    {
        // true
    }

    if (b == "test")
    {
        // false
    }

    if (a == b)
    {
        // false
    }

Just like PHP, you have to read the docs to use it properly.

This is a decade-old PHP defence fallacy. No one says other languages have no problems, so "disproving" that is the fallacy. PHP just has far more problems and footguns. Maybe now it has fewer, but still. Far more.

So you're going to ignore the rest of what I wrote? I'll just assume you agree with me and the rest of my comment, but you don't want to admit it. Works for me.

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