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Well, I specified "IMHO". That's the main issue that I have with PHP.

I have no idea what they do at Facebook, and I don't have to work on the biggest community in the world that often.

The problems I encounter in term of performance for websites/apps are along the lines of pages being super-slow because of the 100 JavaScript frameworks we like to use nowadays for the smallest of projects, my clients uploading 10MB images that get resized via HTML and still load at full-resolution, etc.

As for coding yes—one issue I have is that not using PHP exclusively I get confused by the fact that the opposite of html_entity_decode is htmlentities and not html_entity_encode, and that slows me down for no apparent reason except the fact that 20 years ago one guy added htmlentities and another guy html_entity_decode, and no one thought about aliasing or deprecating one of the two to fix the unintuitive naming.

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"As for coding yes—one issue I have is that not using PHP exclusively I get confused by the fact that the opposite of html_entity_decode is htmlentities and not html_entity_encode"

Ah yes. You will probably have to hit 'tab' on your IDE with php - to type "html_entity_encode". But if this is too hard - Here you go,

Try it out in python (careful of the 2/3 quirks!):

Python: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/275174/how-do-i-perform-...

Java: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5741311/how-to-encode-sp...

Go: https://gist.github.com/brandonrachal/10605780

Rails: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1600526/how-do-i-encode-...

c++ (get your own sax ready!): http://forums.codeguru.com/showthread.php?448809-C-Replacing...

Again the anti-php movement in action. A bunch of devs who used php 15 years ago.

Does stacking of PHP's ternary still result in hard-to-predict behavior?

Yes, documentation still suggest to avoid such practice, see the second note here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.p...

The java apache commons example uses methods named escapeHtml and unescapeHtml

Seems pretty sensible. How is that not support for the claim that php's method naming sucks by comparison?

If you don't want functions you use daily being built in and easy to use - just include a 3rd party one with composer. It will be namespaced properly.

The guy literally said "PHP's problem IMHO is that I wouldn't be able to use it if it wasn't for autocomplete"

Why are you arguing against a strawman?

I meant productively, but whatever you say.

Huh, I was responsing to ransom that he agreed with you but attacked a stawman.

Haha, sorry. I'm on my phone...

I have no idea what you are talking about. How would hitting tab change html_entity_encode into htmlentities?

If you start typing `html` trying to get to `html_entity_encode` you'll notice a dropdown which will show you the right method to use. Unless you use notepad.exe or something.

https://i.imgur.com/YYXkkNS.png

I see, but htmlentities is just an example. It's a coincidence that they both start with 'html'...

Unless you only write a few lines of PHP every couple of days then you quickly learn what is what, and order of the function signature... I left for 2 years and came back and took me 3 days to get back to the state I was before.

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