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Why PHP should be upgraded?

DEV Community: webdev·Yogesh Galav·about 10 hours ago
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Hello guys,

If you are reading this blog then you must have already gone through so much trauma of "Php is dead".

But I'm not going to say that, neither disrespect any language. I have always respected experience and PHP has experience of handling 70% internet of 30 years.

I have also 8+ years experience on PHP and js, but always kept learning working model of other languages like JS, Python, Julia, Ruby, Java, Scala, Rust etc

My this interest has led me to think what technology has evolved in 30 years which php can't adapt. With respect PHP or any other technology has to support already created projects, they just can't do total refactoring for the sake keeping alive internet.

So the answer was

Async programming like JS, Dart and Rust.

Fiber and co-routine based thread use.

Go and Rust like parallel programming.

Memory safety like Rust borrow checker.

Type-safety like rust and typescript.

List, Dictionary, Set and Hashmap datatype like JS and Python.

Simplicity of running command like "run dev,…

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