What a refreshing read! Sure, I'm already a PHP coder but I like this overview that you give of all the modern features we have available at our fingertips.
I have not thought about the open source advantage that we have. When I first learned the basics of coding I was doing it with Java, around the time it got some cool features (Java 8 got lambda), but then Oracle started it's licensing for its compiler and the javax library too, if I remember correctly (while there is OpenJDK, for a newbie it was scary). I don't know how that has impacted the open source fauna of Java, but we haven't had that kind of influence on PHP which may be one of our advantages here.
Anyway, thanks for sharing this article with us. I enjoyed reading it!
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What a refreshing read! Sure, I'm already a PHP coder but I like this overview that you give of all the modern features we have available at our fingertips.
I have not thought about the open source advantage that we have. When I first learned the basics of coding I was doing it with Java, around the time it got some cool features (Java 8 got lambda), but then Oracle started it's licensing for its compiler and the javax library too, if I remember correctly (while there is OpenJDK, for a newbie it was scary). I don't know how that has impacted the open source fauna of Java, but we haven't had that kind of influence on PHP which may be one of our advantages here.
Anyway, thanks for sharing this article with us. I enjoyed reading it!