Three years ago I wrote a post exploring the new integrated programming language, environment, online editor and pipeline called Dark. I thought it looked pretty cool but lacked a lot of necessary features that would make it useful at business scale, and it also came with major vendor lock-in risk. I concluded by planning to look back at it in a year or two. I did so and, woo, do I have some concerns.
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PHP7 Type Hinting And Docblocks
Among the awesome improvements brought to us by PHP7, comes type hinting. An addition to PHP which might be controversial among developers who love PHP’s dynamic typing. PHP isn’t losing its flexibility. On the contrary, we are now gaining yet another way to express our intentions in our code. Continue reading “PHP7 Type Hinting And Docblocks”