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Everything wrong with PHP

  • In object-oriented programming, constructors aren't functions. But in PHP they are declared using function __construct. Weird.
  • No annotations/attributes! How are we supposed to provide metadata about class members?! (and no, phpdoc isn't an annotation, fuck off.)
  • Namespace separators are a backslash, which means they have to be escaped in JSON and other languages.
  • Why do constructors start with __? I've never used this key on my keyboard before.
  • No strict type enforcement / non-null types.
  • No casting to arrays, or specific types.
  • No typed variables within method signatures.
  • No mixed varargs.
  • Weird syntax for foreach. They should've just used for for both types, like Java has.
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