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I am not a developer, but by far most of the code I had to write in the past 5-6 years was in PHP. I see it going in a direction where it is no longer PHP, but trying to be something else it will never be (Java? C#?), so I may continue using it as long as it is backward compatible and that's it: good bye PHP, I am the same but you are not. I am not resistant to change, just the reasons I picked PHP versus something else are going away.


Nothing is stopping you of writing PHP the "old" way, all new stuff is optional.


Only if you work alone. If you're in a team, you'll eventually have to start dealing with the new stuff.




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