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PHP doesn't suck (anymore)

Aaron Francis · 223.1K views · 2023-08-16 · 10:48

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Overview

Aaron Francis walks through how PHP has changed from 2012 to 2023, covering traits, array destructuring, generators, typed properties and more. It is a quick chaptered tour of modern PHP features.

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HN commenters share it to show that modern PHP is much better than its reputation.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2023–2024

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xwowsersx · 2023-12 · Recommendation

Not related to security, but I was quite surprised to see how far PHP has come since I used it many years ago: [PHP doesn't suck (anymore)]( [VIDEO] )

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geek_at · 2023-09 · Recommendation

Many people who learned to code with PHP in the 2000s are picking it up again as first choice for web projects since they improved it so much and websites can be updated and running with a simple `git pull` without restarting any services. I saw a video not long ago that made me have hope for the future of PHP again -> [VIDEO]

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aarondf · 2023-08 · Recommendation

I've been working with PHP since the early 2000s, and it has undergone massive changes. I made a video recently called "PHP doesn't suck (anymore)"[0] to try to cover some of the changes from 2012 to now. If you read through the comments you see a lot of people surprised at how much the language has evolved. And a lot of people saying "PHP sucks lol," but it is YouTube afterall. [0] [VIDEO]

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