I've been in IT doing systems and network support since the mid-90s. I've always been interested in coding and development and have recently started to go down that learning path.
I think the writer of that Medium article is not taking the language development process seriously? PHP7 was a huge undertaking. They were also able to increase PHP performance by 3-4 times? The fact that the only "major" feature-add for PHP8 is a JIT compiler should not be a negative. The language is continuing to grow and expand. He talks about needing "two ecosystems" based on the problem you need to solve, meanwhile PHP has been a wrapper for other ecosystems as long as I can remember?
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I think the writer of that Medium article is not taking the language development process seriously? PHP7 was a huge undertaking. They were also able to increase PHP performance by 3-4 times? The fact that the only "major" feature-add for PHP8 is a JIT compiler should not be a negative. The language is continuing to grow and expand. He talks about needing "two ecosystems" based on the problem you need to solve, meanwhile PHP has been a wrapper for other ecosystems as long as I can remember?