alex-zierhut

Google is 5$ per 1000 queries. I'll likely be switching. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

Absolutely. With such an increase I have to think about switching. 2,5ct for a web search??

The new pricing is a joke. I don't use anything fancy and just needed some web results. I don't see this justified at all.

What motivation would someone have to run a scheduled outage? I can't think of any.

AS far as I know, this is because it was and still is common practice to return a result from a function, but return false if something didn't work. Having this type helps return type declaration like: false|ResultObject

In my opinion, using Exceptions or nullable types is a better practice in those cases, but I am not against having more options.

The last few years have brought insane progress to the PHP language. I absolutely love the direction. Personally, the next feature I'd like to see the most is a great implementation of Tasks / Asynchronously, something the language always lacked, possibly because it is nearly exclusively used with web servers. I mostly get around that by extensively using queues, software like RabbitMQ, and spawning micro services. I would like to see it move towards more general purpose usability.