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A State of PHP in 2020

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February 12, 2020
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A State of PHP in 2020

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Konrad Alfaro

February 12, 2020

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Transcript

  1. A state of PHP in 2020 BetterCollective Ciasteczka #4 -

    Dev Meetup

  2. Konrad Alfaro Software Developer @ BetterCollective

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  5. Thank you! github.com/RadnoK twitter.com/RadnoK_ radnok.com

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  7. Jokes aside

  8. The (sad) past

  9. Low entry level PHP

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  13. ~ Już na pewno NIE mój kolega

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  17. github.com/google/tink/issues/104#issuecomment-417512050

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  19. It’s simple!

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  23. roots.io

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  25. < 7.0

  26. Versioning

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  28. OOP, Dynamic types only…

  29. Current problems

  30. Standard PHP Library functions

  31. Standard PHP Library functions SPL for short*

  32. Standard PHP Library functions SPL for short*

  33. array_map( callable $callback, array $array1 [, array $... ] )

    : array array_filter( array $array [, callable $callback [, int $flag = 0 ]] ): array

  34. array_map( callable $callback, array $array1 [, array $... ] )

    : array array_filter( array $array [, callable $callback [, int $flag = 0 ]] ): array

  35. phpsadness.com

  36. Modern times

  37. Language itself

  38. PHP 7.x

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  40. Fancy and cool features

  41. Type-hints / Return types!

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  44. Arrow functions!

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  47. Null coalescing assignment operator

  48. Array spread operator

  49. And many more…

  50. Yes, we know that others have it for a long

    time…

  51. But we are getting there, too!

  52. Dependencies

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  54. Ich LIBe Dich

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  59. composer.json composer.lock

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  61. Frameworks

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  64. ❤

  65. There is something slightly similar…

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  67. •Both like Annotations, YAMLs •Use separate fully-featured ORM •Is based

    on Components

  68. But it’s (not) a full-stack framework!

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  71. But wait! There is something similar…

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  73. •Model View Controller (MVC) •ActiveRecord pattern for ORM •Authorization out

    of the box •Full-stack framework •Magic…
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  75. And others…

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  79. But we’ve got more!

  80. eCommerce world

  81. ⚡

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  83. Tools

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  85. blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/category/ php-annotated-monthly/

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  89. Libraries

  90. Static Code Analysis

  91. Yup, we do that

  92. github.com/exakat/php-static-analysis-tools

  93. Event-Driven in PHP?

  94. Yup, we do that

  95. reactphp.org

  96. Serverless?

  97. Yup, we do that

  98. github.com/brefphp/bref

  99. Tests?

  100. Yeah, we do that too!

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  103. Event Sourcing, CQRS etc.

  104. I’ve got a Prooph

  105. github.com/prooph

  106. Machine Learning?

  107. Yup, even that

  108. github.com/php-ai/php-ml

  109. ⭐ Standards?

  110. Hell, YES!

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  116. PHP around us

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  121. Well, no longer…

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  123. gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406

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  125. Well, no longer…

  126. HHVM & Hack

  127. HipHop Virtual Machine

  128. <?hh Hack Language

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  130. Implemented in PHP! Implemented in PHP!

  131. Implemented in PHP! We are still waiting… Implemented in PHP!

  132. PHP 7.4 kicks in!

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  136. Community

  137. Meet-ups

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  141. ❤

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  144. Conferences

  145. 2019… and more…

  146. confs.tech/php

  147. Online

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  152. Last thoughts

  153. twitter.com/akrabat/status/1223214852191268865

  154. PHP is just a tool. Like any other tool, it

    can be used in a bad or a good way.

  155. Thank you! github.com/RadnoK twitter.com/RadnoK_ radnok.com

  156. PS. Rekrutujemy BetterCollective bettercollective.com/career