“Haha lol banks use 60 year old programming languages!”
Yes, young whippersnapper, that’s because they need things to be reliable and not change all the time, the code probably has to run for another 60 years.
“Modern” devs could learn a lot from not trying chase every trendy new framework and every shiny new programming language.
@thomasfuchs@nattiegoogie Sheesh, people love to rag on #Javascript so much and turn a wilful blind eye towards all the effort put to improve the language.
Wouldn't you agree that ES6 is nothing like the JS of yesteryear, just as #php 8 is nothing like the php 5.4 shit I had to write when I first entered the industry?
@cnx@SuitedUpDev I disagree. #Javascript is a terrible, terrible language in many ways. Which is highly ironic since Javascript "developers" always love to shit on #PHP by parrotting the "fractal of bad design".
@katalyst a good IDE can be very helpful, also if you are starting out. Jetbrains’ #phpstorm is very powerful and has lots of good tools, and already is IMO helpful fot beginners. For indepth php development, you will likely want to learn about frameworks such as #laravel and/or #symfony. #phpunit, #composer are two tools which are available within e.g. phpstorm which you very likely want to learn (about). Lots of resources on the net, though the official docs at php.net are often probably helpful as well. #learning#programming#php
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Today's Doctrine ORM bug: I have a column which is NOT NULL DEFAULT 0. However, the ORM automatically includes every column in INSERT queries, which means there's a NULL value and thus the query fails (I think I also need to specify the default in the ORM to fix this).
Resisting the urge to undertake a massive rewrite or refactor of an existing codebase that has been quietly working for years. I only need to make the changes necessary to work with the latest version of #PHP. I have to keep reminding myself that rewriting everything is unnecessary. #dev
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