Software in 2014
"It’s a pity some people still build important apps in PHP..."<p>Getting real tired of seeing these baseless statements from so called software professionals.<p>Here is an off-the-top-of-my-head list of features of modern day PHP:<p>* yield<p>* event<p>* pthreads - yeap, real threads.<p>* closures (including support for $this)<p>* consistent hashing api<p>* "finally" added to try-catch<p>* empty() now supports expressions, rather than only
variables.<p>* array and string literal dereferencing<p>* foreach support for list() - foreach($array as list($var, $var))<p>* array_column<p>* traits<p>* short array syntax<p>* namespaces<p>* json manipulation is second to none.<p>* runkit - all kinds of danger here