I will add that Facebook helped a lot, first with HHVM, then hacklang. And it forced PHP to modernize itself.
Several companies are digging into switching from PHP to hacklang.
I would say that PHP isn't the script kiddy language it used to be anymore, with some deep OOP principles inside of it since PHP7.
Keith Adams (chief architect @ slack) wrote Taking PHP seriously.
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I will add that Facebook helped a lot, first with HHVM, then hacklang. And it forced PHP to modernize itself.
Several companies are digging into switching from PHP to hacklang.
I would say that PHP isn't the script kiddy language it used to be anymore, with some deep OOP principles inside of it since PHP7.
Keith Adams (chief architect @ slack) wrote Taking PHP seriously.
More about hacklang vs PHP, and performance-wise