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> The graphs on that page show Go beating Java in memory usage in every case. "Beating"? The JVM is configured to take as much available memory it thinks is necessary to speed up e…

Probably because it won't matter for the next few years. If you use features of Java 8, you force everyone of your clients to use/switch to a Java 8 runtime, too. Whereas in Scala …

Especially annoying are those people who think the transformations formats are all of Unicode (and consequently suggest to use UTF-32 "to solve all problems").

In my opinion it is ironic that they built a better C, but gave it attributes (like GC) which made it unusable for exactly those cases you would want to use C in the first place. G…

This old and tired “but but but ... other languages aren't perfect too” is adding nothing to the debate. The problem is that PHP is light-years behind any sanely -not necessarily p…

So what? The package manager will not install it. So it is still thousand times better than downloading random things from the net.

>> As soon as someone points out an issue they almost immediately switch to "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!". I don't think I have to comment that any further ...

> People coming from other programming languages that are extremely talented in that language PHP wouldn't be this worse if this was what would actually be happening, because these…

> $foo will grow stronger than ever. -- Democratic People's Republic of Korea Yeah, sure.

> there are many self-described experts in PHP I think this is the real problem of PHP. It attracts people too stupid to realize that their own level of knowledge should make them …

Everybody should have basic programming skills, just like math, writing, etc. That doesn't mean we have to be happy with the shitty way things are currently done.

Smoking isn't just a profession, it's an everyday skill that everyone should learn, regardless of how badly. A cigarette is a great enabler for this - and I endorse this direction …

The question is why they don't move on to a working language, knowing that the PHP team will _never_ fix all these bugs. It is like those people who keep penny-stocks they bought y…

> The core of the PHP community is filled with a lot of really talented and smart developers doing some really amazing things. Like those, who failed for years to actually consult …

Yes, the daemon. The actual interpreter is still thrown away every few requests, because it is leaking memory like hell.

I hate this apologist bullshit. Yes, we know that there are a lot of PHP sites on the net, we aren't retarded. If PHP wouldn't be such a wide-spread problem, people wouldn't have t…

Weren't there quite some different templating choices (including Groovy) available from the beginning? Independently from that, the compilation times will automatically improve whe…

It's funny how that "functional" name calling appears so convenient if it fits the own argumentation. (Not considering that Scala is foremost an object-oriented language.) Groovy i…

Ouch.

You mean the dormant one from 2004 which was never finished? http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=241 Or the "Groovy specification" which is almost completely empty? http://groovy.codeh…

This is my impression, too. I think Groovy's "static" features are a reaction to a lot of developers realizing that "statically typed" doesn't necessarily mean that the language ha…

As far as I know they still lack even a language spec.

That's exactly the issue I'm talking about: you can't “enforce” the static type, so different methods get called depending on whether you pass List foo = MyList(...) or MyList foo …

Just wanted to say thank you for this great list!