| It's interesting to follow the flow of ideas among languages/platforms. We've repeatedly seen concepts that were popularized by the enterprise Java crowd flow down to the .NET crowd, and eventually to the PHP crowd. IoC and DI is a good example of this. It was extremely hyped within the Java community during the early- and mid-2000s. Then this flowed into the C# community, with it getting a lot of attention during the late-2000s and early-2010s. Now it has finally made its way to the PHP community. An astute PHP user who recognizes this flow of ideas will look at how the trend has progressed within the Java and C# communities. What they'll see is that there has be movement away from IoC and DI. The purported advantages never materialized, but there was a lot of pain and bad code left around. Many in the Java community have moved on toward simpler frameworks and techniques, or even toward a far more static JVM-targeting language like Scala. Many C# users have similarly started moving away to other approaches. At some point, perhaps around 2016 or so, the PHP community will come to the same conclusions about the suitability (or lack thereof) of these techniques. After experiencing the problems first hand, they'll too move back to simpler, more explicit approaches. |
> Many in the Java community have moved on toward simpler frameworks and techniques
What have they moved onto?
> At some point, perhaps around 2016 or so, the PHP community will
Oh so true :D