On 12/09/2019 23:16, Mike Schinkel wrote:
How many of those are actually developers? Because the way I understand this numbers,
"powering the web", that doesn't mean 34% are also developers. It wouldn't
surprise me if a big portion of these applications could've also be a system written in
another language, deployed, plugins installed, added some themes and done, no PHP
knowledge required.
Most WordPress users are*not* programmers.
Which is why introducing breaking changes to PHP will potentially affect them so
negatively; because they have no programmers on staff nor any skill to fix the problem.
Which means they will have to hire expensive programmers — like me!!! — to fix a problem
that from their perspective they do not understand nor will even recognize a benefit when
the code is "fixed."
Again, I am just presenting this perspective on this list. Those who vote on
this list will decide if breaking WordPress end-user's site bothers them or not.
Something which does not help here is the way WordPress enforces
upgrades that may not be compatible with all elements of the themes that
the user currently has active. I AM a programmer rather than a web
designer and am having trouble keeping WordPress sites stable. To that
end I have decided simply to freeze at PHP7.2 for various reasons but
WordPress is now complaining that the version of PHP is out of date. One
just can't win ... some of the WordPress sites themes will not even work
with PHP7 (or WP5) at all. So we *DO* need an LTS version of PHP that
will run perfectly functional websites for the next ten years while
others create the next replacement for the likes of WordPress by moving
framework functionality inside PHP ... Much of the discussion on new
features cut across the ways frameworks already handle that
functionality ...
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