I use PHP a lot (primary product is written in it) and I actually mostly like using it but you can get really burnt applying the "principle of least surprise" to the PHP standard library.
I really wish there was more support behind the idea of creating a new standard library and gradually deprecating the old one, it's been tried but never gets any traction.
Meanwhile frameworks and libraries continue to add their own (often very good) helper libraries to smooth the edges.
I really wish there was more support behind the idea of creating a new standard library and gradually deprecating the old one, it's been tried but never gets any traction.
Meanwhile frameworks and libraries continue to add their own (often very good) helper libraries to smooth the edges.