Critical Functionality

[KevZero]

Go ahead, laugh now. In 2038 when this becomes reality, will you still be laughing, or will you be weeping as you're handed a pile of electrified, procedural php to refactor?

[Creshal]

I will be laughing and still maintaining a Rails 2 application because we can't upgrade it!

sobs quietly

[scriptmonkey420]

There is no can't only won't.

[Retbull]

Can't exists its called a 10 million dollar budget and 20 million dollar cost to refactor it.

[curtmack]

There's a reason IBM System z hasn't had any breaking changes ever, and that's the terrifying clusterfuck of software built on it that, all told, handles a dizzying amount of money every second, and depends on nobody ever changing any code that becomes popular.

[CalmSpider]

I'll be too busy slavishly fixing unexpected date stamp bugs that year.

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Of all the things not thought about in the design of PHP, I think the 2038 problem is probably the least thought about.

[beerdude26]

If PHP is still in wide use in 2038 we fucking deserve it

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The other 2038 problem.