[voidr]

> Last time i looked PHP still had no generics, and the "typesystem" is mostly a joke.

So is Python's yet the language is enjoying great success.

> All the builtin functions still have no namespaces, and no forced types.

And no PHP developer cares, because neither does C and yet it's doing just fine.

> PHP still coerces strings to ints and vice versa.

Which is great for beginners, because they don't need to worry about it, unlike me when I program in Rust and have to deal with 8+ number types.

> PHP still has serious bugs with its (only) collection, the frankenstein ARRAY.

So does JavaScript, yet it's not enough to stop the language.

> IIRC doing a array_filter is still broken on PHP8 for key val arrays.

There is some odd behavior if you try to do certain things in a functional style that is actually true.

> PHP still had no unicode in 2023, im not sure how the latest version fixed this or not. IIRC you had to use the weird mb_real functions to get anything closely functional, and it was a mess.

That can get annoying in some use cases, I have developed many international web apps in PHP, it rarely got in my way, but I do acknowledge that it's not great to not have Unicode by default, I suspect they are afraid to resolve this after seeing what happened with Python 3.