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Changes you would love to see in PHP? (self.php)

submitted 1 year ago by prwnr to c/php

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To lighten up some discussion here, I would like to ask what features or changes you would love to see in future PHP versions? We know that in recent versions a lot of nice adjustments were added, but I bet most of us dreams for more.

I personally would love to see types on inline variables, at first even not strict. However, I don’t know if it’s remotely possible with how currently the language is implemented.

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[–] spartanatreyu 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This one right here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/consistent_function_names

Right now the only reason I ever use php is because I have to.

This one simple change would bring me half way to wanting to use php for fun (the other half would be making debugging easier).

[–] prwnr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you wrote more about that debugging? I’m curious what you find not easy.

[–] spartanatreyu 2 points 1 year ago

Mainly because you've got to setup PHP to be debuggable in the first place.

And setting up PHP is already a hassle. When a dev has to set up php in about 5 separate ways just to figure out which one is actually debuggable, then PHP has a problem.