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by tyingq 2038 days ago
"There's a long report on Wordpress and PHP 8 and it's not pretty"

I wonder if that's somewhat on purpose. Part of the remaining stigma with PHP is that people cite bad PHP examples from WP.
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cstuder 2038 days ago
No, I think WordPress being the most installed PHP application on the net warrants the special attention to it.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management

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tyingq 2038 days ago
Not sure I understand. I'm saying the PHP team didn't cede any deprecations to Wordpress this time. Meaning no special attention.
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cstuder 2038 days ago
Sorry, I missunderstood what you were writing.

Yes, it doesn't look like they took special attention to WordPress when developing PHP 8.

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BeyondLimits99 2037 days ago
As a PHP dev this is a really fair comment.

I think the other reason non PHP devs think we are in the dark ages is because when they google it, our documentation looks like it's from 2010. It's a bit of a joke really.

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samus 2036 days ago
One other thing I always found iffy is the comment section. Why is the information there not reviewed and back-ported into the documentation? Sometimes, as on the page of the `DateTime` class, they actually contain crucial details!
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