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jbob2000

>I dont understand the compat-centric decisions being made for major version changes

Compatibility is the only thing PHP has going for it right now. It feels like the only PHP apps out there are 'legacy' ones, new projects are written in newer stuff.

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Nonsense. People are writing things in PHP all the time. You just don't hear about it because it's not the cool, new, shiny thing of the week.

Over 34,000 repos created on Github since Jan 1 that have PHP as the main language: https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&q=created%3A%3E2015-01-01+l...

cweagans is right. PHP is deeply unfashionable, ridiculous even to some programmers using other langauges. But quietly, somewhere out of sight, it has been enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Generally I'm pleased with changes in the culture, tools, standards and even in the language. But just can't get behind this decision to keep mcrypt.

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