Posts tagged with discussion
One of the most sought-after features for PHP is Generics: The ability to have a type that takes another type as a parameter. It's a feature found in most compiled languages by now, but implementing generics in an interpreted language like PHP, where all the type checking would have to be done at runtime, has always proven Really Really Hard(tm), Really Really Slow(tm), or both.
Read more [thephp.foundation]
My colleague Seb has an interesting though on a future PHP feature.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
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Earlier this week the PHP Foundation was announced. In this stream on GitHub, my buddies Christoph Rumpel, James Brooks and I discuss what we think this means for the future of PHP.
Ross Tuck doesn't blog often, but when he does, it's worth your time!
Read more [www.rosstuck.com]
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Daniel Elkington comments on the reactions to an important RFC that adds function-based components to Vue.
Today I was amazed to see the usually positive and friendly VueJS community descend into a bitter war. Two weeks ago Vue creator Evan You released a Request for Comment (RFC) for a new function-based way of writing Vue components in the upcoming Vue 3.0. Today a critical Reddit thread followed by similarly critical comments in a Hacker News thread caused a flood of developers to flock to the original RFC to voice their outrage, some of which were borderline abusive
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Ross Tuck makes the case that not all code is equal.
Most teams follow the Broken Window Theory, fearing even a single tradeoff starts the slide down a slippery slope. This can reduce discussion (read: dissension) in the short term but leads to arbitrary compliance or worse. ... Deciding on a level of quality isn’t like deciding on a coding standard, you can’t have an off-the-shelf-always-okay answer. Quality is the place to have nuanced discussions.
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My colleague Brent shares some interesting thoughts on which direction PHP could go forward.
Let's take, for example, the debate about strong types in PHP. A lot of people, including myself, would like a better type system. Strong types in PHP would definitely have an impact on my daily work. Not just strong types, I also want generics, better variance and variable types. Improvements to PHP's type system in general would have quite the impact on my programming life. So what's stopping us from reaching a solution?
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/what-php-can-be
Eric L. Barnes asked this question to people with several backgrounds.
I love questions that can’t be answered with a simple yes or no. One question that I have been thinking about recently is, just what does it take to be a great developer?https://dotdev.co/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-great-developer-a2eddb0c47e6#.sf8kwd8tvI came up with tons of answers but felt like mine are all through my own lens, so I decided to reach out to a few people from different walks of life and just ask them. What follows is the answer by each person and their profession so you can compare and contrast.