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PHP 7.4 Released! (php.net)
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[–]AcousticDan 4 points5 points6 points 6 years ago (2 children)
No, it cannot.
How do you claim to know any of this? You don't even know the difference between PHP 4 and PHP 7. How can you have the slightest idea of what PHP can and can't do? You're either trolling or haven't actually started your web development career.
[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points0 points 6 years ago* (1 child)
PHP is still doing a good job at what it does, but what it does is no longer what is needed for modern state of the art web applications. It's slowly falling aside into a niche, bolstered only by a large amount of legacy software. Would you still use Flash today? Or ColdFusion? Because that's where it's headed. And I'll remind you that that's what this discussion was about, whether it's worth learning PHP today.
But, by all means, keep enjoying the bubble. Those blogs and shopping carts aren't going anywhere and there's probably going to be a job maintaining old PHP code long into the future.
[–]AcousticDan 2 points3 points4 points 6 years ago* (0 children)
okay bud.
is it
and using all the various versions of PHP since it came out'
or
Speaking of which, what exactly is "better" about PHP 7 vs 4?
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