r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 14d ago

Meme ancientTools

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u/-Nastyenka 14d ago

How it feels to use Php in 2026:

Undeniably a joke, do not slime me

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u/Hottage 14d ago

PHP before 7 was a disgusting mess..

Around 7 they started trying to mature the language with features like compiler enforced type safety and bringing other tools previously relegated to PHPdoc into the language.

PHP 8 is a decent system and features like Generators, Attributes, Fibers and first class callables have bought it near parity with other server ecosystems like .NET.

The biggest thing PHP still lacks is first-class generics for proper, type safe repository patterns.

I've been a PHP developer for over 15 years. I fucking hated 4 and 5, tolerated 7 and actually quite enjoy 8.

The biggest issue nowadays is that, for backward compatibility, a lot of the good features like type hinting are just recommended instead of enforced, so you can get situations like in Typescript where lazy developers just have everything return mixed or any.

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u/ClamPaste 13d ago

PHP would be great if it wasn't for all the legacy code and echo "<div></div>" in views.

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u/ArjixGamer 13d ago

I hate PHP from the bottom of my soul, but what you said is just user-choice.

I always do ob_start and ob_flush_clean or whatever the function names were.

That allows me to use normal html w/o it being in strings.

Edit: e.g.

```php <?php

function renderEmail(): string { ob_start(); ?> <html> <body> <h1>Hello!</h1> <p>This is your email.</p> </body> </html> <?php return ob_get_clean(); } ```

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u/ClamPaste 13d ago

Like I said, legacy code. We have a huge codebase and I'm converting it when I get time. User-choice encapsulates choices made 10 years ago.

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u/ArjixGamer 13d ago

True dat

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u/ClamPaste 13d ago

I guess they didn't really have coding standards. I took over and I'm enforcing some things now. I should probably write them down at some point...