PHP has changed for the better in so many ways in the time between PHP5 and PHP8, making it far easier to write good code, but oh wow do I wish their basic string and array manipulation functions had some consistency. I'm extremely tempted to port LINQ to PHP just so I don't have to deal with completely random* naming & parameter ordering.
(*not actually random; it stems from an old design quirk to do with how standard functions were hashed and indexed internally. it's just annoying)
