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I hate annotations in PHP. They feel very tacked-on. I'd much rather see actual enforced typing in the language. This is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough, in my opinion.
The framework you are using may be emulating them, though. By parsing docblocks. Hence why it feels like that.
I sure had no idea Box uses PHP.
Reading this, wishing Facebook's Hack lang was OSS so I could really have a chance to sink my teeth in and compare/contrast these tools. Edit: Clarity
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In a very literal sense, everything in PHP is tacked on. It's a conglomeration of crap. You could replace "crap" with something more politically correct in that sentence, but it could not possibly be more literally correct. Annotations. Namespaces. There is nothing in PHP that was not an afterthought. While it could technically be considered "unfair" to criticize the language in that respect, the total failure to pus…
While I agree with nearly every assertion you make, I'm still hazy on what 'good' is. Surely the fact that so many people find PHP the most productive language they could've worked with, and produce mountains and mountains of working code that is at least mostly reliable - don't those qualities alone make it in some sense good? Then again I think some pop music is good, so I'm starting from a point where I don't nece…
To use a car analogy, I have more respect for the guy running an old Mustang he tunes up and runs a 11 second quarter-mile than the jackass who drops 200 large on an exotic that pulls a 10.
I sure had no idea Box uses PHP.
Does anyone have a rough census of what top websites use? I've had this same reaction, but more than once with PHP: I know now that at least Box, Wikipedia, and Facebook use PHP.
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Does anyone have a rough census of what top websites use? I've had this same reaction, but more than once with PHP: I know now that at least Box, Wikipedia, and Facebook use PHP.
Facebook doesn't use PHP the way other companies do. They ship & run binaries via HipHop/HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) in production. Other companies which use Facebook as an excuse (justification) to use PHP in production ship standard PHP scripts into Production and think they are doing the same thing Facebook does.
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In a very literal sense, everything in PHP is tacked on. It's a conglomeration of crap. You could replace "crap" with something more politically correct in that sentence, but it could not possibly be more literally correct. Annotations. Namespaces. There is nothing in PHP that was not an afterthought. While it could technically be considered "unfair" to criticize the language in that respect, the total failure to pus…
Thank goodness there are people in this world who care more about shipping than about perfection. Thank goodness there are people who have thicker skin than I, and release FOSS to the world despite comments like yours.
I hate annotations in PHP. They feel very tacked-on. I'd much rather see actual enforced typing in the language. This is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough, in my opinion.
I hate annotations in PHP. They feel very tacked-on. I'd much rather see actual enforced typing in the language. This is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't go far enough, in my opinion.
Yes I dislike the use of 'annotations'. Would it not be better to catch the recoverable error that "function foo (integer $a)" gives, then use your error handler to check that $a is an integer?