What if you get a much better service from Uber?

Most local produce initatives fail because they're not actually better than the global/international variants, especially considered from a price/quality pov.

OOP is for problems that require complex modeling, indeed if you require just complex calculation it is useless.

For sure. Cost for example?

Just pointing out the obvious steelman people seem to be missing.

You can go on sidequests but first you need to accumulate sufficient credibility.

This is it, pretty much. If you do your own thing and it works, then you'll come out well. If you do your own thing and it fails, you'll look bad, while if you do what yiu're asked you're going to be much safer. So if you go off-piste you should have some confidence it'll work.

> if you go off-piste you should have some confidence it’ll work

Just remember that the definition of “working” is in the eyes of your manager. Assuming they’re competent and not pointy haired boss, then they might have different goals and priorities to you. I’d you end up diverging from them, even if what you did is technically good and a good fit for the project, you’ll probably have a bad time.

Yes, you do still need to solve a problem that is considered a problem and at least around the same level of importance of whatever you were supposed to be working on, preferably greater.

You can configure opcache to never stat unless it's reloaded

Huh, well that sounds like it would have been useful. It's been at least 10 years since I did any php dev work, but maybe I'll find an excuse to use it again for something.

Not only can you configure it to never stat; it has also been on by default since PHP 5.5 afaicr

Whenever I read HN talking about PHP I am reminded of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. The level of discussion on the topic is abysmal, compared to (I guess perceived?) the discussion on other topics.

It's interesting how clearly 80% of the developers in the community clearly have 0 clue about modern PHP. People mention shared hosting, code in html files, CGI and bad security defaults. To be clear these things have been dead in the PHP world for 10+ years, but most developers here have used it once in 2005 and haven't seen how it looks like in the modern ecosystem.

It's as if whenever the topic was Java, the discussion would center only around the devs working with Java 1.8.

Likely, the rest of the discussion on HN is of the same level, but I have a harder time spotting the errors.

The comparison would be towards other languages in its class: Python, Ruby, Javascript.

Besides the shared nothing architecture mentioned by sibling:

- A more mature community and ecosystem for open source packages e.g. basics like following semver

- One single clear option for package management, which is also by far best in class

- Simply better performance except maybe compared to javascript

While the rest of the options may tick one of the above boxes, none of them ticks all 3.

Normally PHP developers are competent in Javascript but try to avoid it due to the clusterfuck that javascript is, especially the ecosystem.

‘laughs in left-pad’

It is not the same issue, due to how opcache works. No one remotely competent runs PHP without opcache in 2025.