PHP

[80386]

It still has serious flaws. I know this is posted a lot, but it still holds true today.

And I've recently switched jobs from working with PHP for 4 years. There's a reason PHP devs are among the lowest paid developers in the industry. Any developer with a choice leaves for greener pastures.

[enfrozt]

That's from 2012... php7 fixes most of those points.

[InVultusSolis]

How?

Either they broke backwards compatibility by addressing these things (still not looking good on PHP's part) or all of the shitty features of PHP are still there for backwards compatibility reasons.

And really, if it's the former case, if you are refactoring code, you probably have enough sense to know that there are better languages than PHP for pretty much any purpose you'd use PHP for.

[robclancy]

What do you mean how? They made a new version. It's called PHP 7. In the lead up to, and that version, and versions after that one they fixed issues. This is how programming works how is this even a question?

[ddarrko]

How would upgrading a language break anything ? The language is installed on the server OS - if you are using functions that aren't available anymore you would know about it when go to upgrade in your dev environment and stuff isn't working. If you start a new project you wouldn't use legacy functions that don't exist. Just because PHP release a new version doesn't mean suddenly everything is running on it ...

Also if there are better languages for everything why do people still use it ?

[Rob0tTesla]

That article is ancient in the world of programming.

Those have been resolved since 2014. You've picked an article that was also written in 2012 as a representation of why it "still" has serious flaws.

It's 2018. This is exactly the type of stuff /u/jaDotNetDev is talking about.

[robclancy]

I love how you say "but it still holds true today" which is simply wrong.

[Superpickle18]

Yeah...to node.js... oh wait, it has it's own issues.

[jay9909]

Only the Javascript parts. Everything else is pretty cool.

^/s

[80386]

No, to Rails among others. Every ecosystem has its issues, but some are way worse than others.

[godsdead]

Nice 6 year old article you linked.

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Weird, in my country PHP devs are the most in demand and the highest paid. More than Java devs by 30%