The Future

A well-polished rant on the horribly inadequate state of programming in general in PHP in particular. Given at PHP Undiscovered in SF.

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1. Hi.
3. Of RAD RAPID A PPLICATION DEVEL O PMENT UNI ON OF R AD
4. WHAT’S NEXT? a vision for the future of PHP development
5. WHAT IS THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY?
6. Where are we now?
7. In short... everything sucks.
8. Well, most things kinda suck.
9. Also, front-end things are now happening on the front-end.
11. Composer, wewt?
12. Debugging: sucks (but @bobthecow is working on making it incrementally more awesome)
13. UNIT TESTS are for COMPUTERS
14. namespace my_app\controllers; class Files extends Base { // ... public function add($request, $file) { if (!$data = $request->data) { return $file; } $success = $file->save($data + [ 'mime' => $request->env('CONTENT_TYPE'), 'name' => $request->env('HTTP_X_FILE_NAME') ]); return $success && $file->attachTo($request->query, [ 'project' => ['Projects', 'logo'], 'studio' => ['Studios', 'logo'], ]); } }
17. CODE is also for COMPUTERS
24. EVERYTHING IS AMAZING AND NOBODY’S HAPPY
25. WE HAVE JETPACKS NOW! THIS SHOULD BE EASY