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delfinom on Nov 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP 8.3

>PHP got shamed for these things because people built complex, and over time unmaintainable, systems in it.

Because it was very accessible for people to get into it without being you know, a 10 year programming veteran at least.

Now all those newbies are out creating 400 npm dependency projects heh

Timon3 on Nov 24, 2023 [–]

> Because it was very accessible for people to get into it without being you know, a 10 year programming veteran at least.

Sure. Wouldn't it be nice to allow these people to write better code without having to change their language?

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