It’s certainly useful, but without looking, what is the difference between these two methods in the standard library:

array_sort

sortArray

Even if you can answer that off the top of your head, consider how ridiculous it is that you needed to memorize that at some point. This is not the only example of such a thing a PHP dev needed to remember to be effective, either.

Any programming language can be wielded in a simple way. Perl, for example, is superior to PHP in every way that is important to me.

Go is as well, even though it’s slightly more verbose than PHP for the authors imagebin tool.

We don’t do things simply because we’ve all been taught that complexity is cool and that using new tools is better than using old tools and so on.

My employer creates pods in Kubernetes to run command line programs on a fixed schedule that could (FAR MORE SIMPLY) run in a cronjob on a utility server somewhere. And that cronjob could email us all when there is a problem. But instead I have to remember to regularly open a bookmark to an opensearch host with a stupidly complex 75-character hostname somewhere, find the index for the pod, search through all the logs for errors, and if I find any, I need to the dig further to get any useful contextual information about the failure … or I could simply read an email that cron automatically delivered directly to my inbox. We stumble over ourselves to shove more things like that into kubernetes every day, and it drives me nuts. This entire industry has lost its goddamned mind.