KLklaussilveira·Nov 22, 2024
Once rector gets 8.4 rules out, this will be pretty awesome:
https://github.com/rectorphp/rector/issues/8701
https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser/commit/7b0384cdbe03431c4...
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In Upcoming Hardening in PHPNo. If we're talking about tech debt (that's not what parent was talking about by the way) then JS is a magnitude worse. Running old projects from JS ecosystem can require multiple miracles, not only code refactoring.
And your example, codeigniter, is one of the worst examples in PHP.
Not only it is a framework that has minor usage:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=codeigniter,larav...
It is infamous for being hard to upgrade. No responsible PHP developer would start a complex project in it today.
A typical PHP project in the last years use either Laravel or Symfony.
Not to mention PHP has mature tooling to perform automated code upgrade between versions: https://github.com/rectorphp/rector
The project I mentioned was 4 years old and so far no code change was required between PHP 7.2 and PHP 8.3.
And again, my parent was clearly
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talking about server upgrade: "was alway easier just to build a new server".
And the change I had to do was not even multiple lines, it was a single line in a Dockerfile. I found the Pull Request and it was from 7.4 to 8.3:
https://i.imgur.com/MmemYSp.png