For the lovers and haters of the elePHPant here is a simple fact
PHP 7.x is a vast improvement over previous versions and 8.0 promises to surpass all expectations.

We have a lot of php 7 at my present shop, and frankly I barely recognise it over the old php I went to school with.

It's like a real programming language

@bezorp fuck! 😂

Hope we get the "Hello world".length()

@theKarlisK definitely intentional. As you no doubt know, it was never intended to be anything more than an HTML templating engine, but it was so easy to prototype in that it became a sort of back-end lingua franca.

And so here we are today: in a world where php is ubiquitous and virtually everyone knows how to work with it. It's really no wonder why it's the natural choice for a lot of companies when they're just getting started.

Not saying any of this is ideal, or that this isn't changing, but we do live in a world with a loooot of php.

THE KINGDOM WILL RISE AGAIN!!! PRAISE OUR KING!!!

Have they implemented proper routing, or is it still each file being and endpoint?

@inaba erm... PHP has had routing capabilities for a long time. You should check out Laravel, that beast of a framework is proof that PHP can do some serious shit.