Its just a discussion and my personal opinion i'm sharing.
Its hn, i think its reasonable to discuss asthetics of langauges?
But yes the history of PHP is murky and i do believe, that a few small changes could have big advantages for PHP and because PHP was one of my first languages and i also developed for it for a few years, i do have some type of connection to it.
Just imagine having a more community / sig driven approach defining a spec first, than having a reference implementation and opening it up to others.
And a PHP base rework would also help. Rethinking the architecture and code, cleaning it up and fixing issues which are still there because of it like unicode support.
I know plenty of people, including me, who has no real knowledge about those humans.
And sometimes not knowing is better like the example with Rammstein and row zero were some manager woman was asking other woman if they want to meet their rockstars.
Btw. on a good electronic music set, knowing the arist is probably more a quality sign than a personal aspect. Knowing that i like what arist xy does, means i might like to keep an eye on future work because i like the style of it.
Nonetheless, i do also think that fandom and doing real tours will still be the unique things for bands. There should always be a market for human content.
PHP without types / types in comments existed in parallel to spring boot for years.
And im pretty sure that the history of PHP is still everywere inside PHP, like php function inconsistencies across the board.
Or whats the current situation on unicode support?
When i started with PHP4 and Lamp, what a great time. JavaEE was bloated, not a lot of good free webservers available, granted.
But while PHP5 was great and had a loooong shelflife, JEE became much cooler and had fundamental critical things like CDI and really good CDI Frameworks.
Eclipse Java IDE was always really good, something PHP hadn't had for ages.
And if you look at the fundamental difference between lets say java and php: In Java you have specs and reference implementations (partially also thanks to oracle, you now have mulitply companies having their JVMs) which made the JVM very robust and fast.
When Facebook did the hhvm/hack stuff, that was great and pushed enough nerves to rethink the performance of PHP but the performance gains were stupid crazy. Thats a very good indication when a language with so little money and support has such a huge performance gain after such a long time existing.
The fact that Facebook than threw the PHP community under the bus with hhvm/hack didn't make it better.
But just because PHP apparently added reasonable typing in >7.2 still makes it a ranchy languages for most of its lifetime.
Anyway ranting about it doesn't imply that i hate it or that i haven't used it. Its one of my first languages, but from my personal view, php is a shitty language in comparision to most others
While it was always easy to debug java based apps and the debug support is great (remote connection, drop frames, all types of breakpoints etc.) people struggled with this in php.
I showed a professional a few years back how to debug with php, after 2 weeks he stoped using it...
I shit on php because when you develop professionally with it, you want strong types so what happend was that people started to use comments to hint types.
Those hinted types are than enforced through an IDE.
Thats just horrendes langauges missuse / misdesign.
There are plenty of articles telling me that renewables are already cheaper than nuclear.
Articles are poping up that those small scale reactors are also getting more and more expensive. Wouldn't they not just succeed if they would deliver what they promis?
There are also plenty of articles telling me that all of those nuclear power plant projetcts took longer and are more expensive than they thought, including the last example of this "Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant".
Uran is not limitless and thorium is not finished being researched as far as i know.
And at the end of the day, you still have to handel radiactive waste.
While this is going on, PV, Wind and Batteries are getting cheaper.
Btw. we will have plenty of capacity available sooner than later. My EV has 100 kWh and this is already enough to buffer a whole house for heating and lights in winter.
All those EV batteries will be used for secondary live after normal lifetime soon. Regarding costs: i read the opposite that the prices are going down faster than people originally thought they would.
Would our world look different today if we globally agree on just doing nuclear? Doing proper research with proper money behind it and aligning globally?
Yes.
Did we do it?
No.
So what gives? I bet you the world would look better than today if everyone would vote me in as the leader of earth.
My point is: I can investe in PV, EV etc. now. I don't have to ask anyone so i do. People in rural areas can do that too, poor people as well.
PV/Wind and batteries are a fundamentally great thing to have and there might be a reality out there with so much nuclear power so that you could make h2 or methan for cars and heat houses by just converting it 1:1 but batteries and heat pumps are smart technology to have.
WE have a long history of nuclear power and the incident in Tschernobyl was a real big WTF moment for us.
My parents were probably young parents and it was not clear at all what the real impact was. The news suggested to clean/wash all vegetables and still TODAY you need to check your hunt for too high radiactive values.
It was NEVER obvious and Fukushima showed again HOW unreliable it can be and how little we know about this.
Am i against Nuclear? No.
But you would never have been able to push for nuclear 20 years ago because it took ages to even get climate change on the proper radar.
I also believe, that at least in germany, we don't need it. It will be easier and cheaper and better to invest A LOT in PV, Wind, Battery and EVs.
Economy of scale, independency, cheap, easy, win-win.
Edit:
PV are just crystals, they should be even cheaper to build than now and with more flexible PVs you can do a lot of interesting and reasonable things. You can use them as fences (there was already a news article about it), you can put them on facades, around light posts, on your balcony, use them as sun shades etc.
Wind became a lot better with no one really talking about it. And wind energy grows quadratically by radius. Big wind mills make A LOT more energy
Batteries will be a game changer. We need them for EVs anway, we use them in laptops and smartphones. In germany we have a very good power grid but in 2th world countries like the USA you have a lot of Grid problems. Add batteries to it. And even in countries like canada you have the 'outback' with grid issues after bad weather.
Alone the batteries for EVs will help a lot of providing necessary buffer capacity.
We tend to forget how big and impactfull our oil consumption actually is. Its a lot easier to have batteries and 'thin' power lines than transporting oil from the ground to refineries to gas stations.
The current situation is not better, its just paid off