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by rglullis
2127 days ago
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It's not "just" the language. It's also a matter of what the improvements bring in for possibilities of new developers and mindshare. Python as a language hasn't changed much, but it made huge strides into the scientific community and got a lot of marketshare from ecosystems like R and Matlab. It's becoming king in the ML/AI side. Go is growing in the backend systems/devops stuff that used to be the realm of Python. Rust is getting more and more adoption as a systems language and focus on safety. Even Java seems to be adopting things that make it less bureaucratic while being general enough for the enterprise. I am not saying that PHP has to go away or anything. It's just that I wished that new releases could have more interesting things to say besides "it's not as crappy as it used to be". |
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I don't think there are many people in PHP's orbit who want it to be a better Python, or a better Perl/Ruby/JavaScript.
PHP was written to be a good language for average web development, and I think that's where it will always shine. I'm perfectly happy with a gradual process of making it less crappy.
Having said that, I'd love some of Hack's features (e.g. reified generics, proper list/dict primitives) to make it into PHP.