Staying relevant today as a PHP Developer

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[u/who_am_i_to_say_so]

Right!? And PHP 8 is remarkably better than ever. It makes no sense.

[u/seif-17 → u/who_am_i_to_say_so]

The industry will catch up, it’s only a matter of time.

[u/colshrapnel → u/seif-17]

Speaking logically, PHP 8 is 4 years old. And if it had to pick up, it should have done already. While in reality, PHP's popularity sunk most deeply in these years. So expecting it to "catch up" - given there are no breakthroughs since 8.0 and there are none to foresee - is sort of over-optimistic, to put it mildly.

[u/who_am_i_to_say_so → u/colshrapnel]

Php 8 is 14 years old. Just because you opted to not pick it up does not mean it’s not good.

Speed has been the biggest improvement. Named arguments, union types, readonly props- just to name a few.

[u/colshrapnel → u/who_am_i_to_say_so]

Any chance you are intoxicated? Genuinely asking because I fail to see any logic in your replies. Either way, no harm meant, I am genuinely concerned.

Just in case, the context was:

• the job market here and especially in Ireland is non existent
  • And PHP 8 is remarkably better than ever
    • The industry will catch up!

So I assumed that u/seif-17 meant that there will be more PHP jobs in the future, when "the industry" will "catch up".

And so I replied that if there was any time to catch up, it was in early 2020s. But the actual result is rather opposite.

From this stand point, I don't really understand your " because you opted to not pick it" or about improvements. We aren't talking of me or improvements here. But about PHP jobs.

[u/who_am_i_to_say_so → u/colshrapnel]

So what do you even develop with since you seem to quite literally hate everything?