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smashers1114 • today at 7:28 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

Presumably it makes sense to sunset PHP especially with how cheap code migrations are nowadays.


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anonymous908213 • today at 7:49 PM

Beating the dead horse, as you are: the Bun Rust migration cost millions of dollars in tokens and took an additional 3.5 months of labor after the widely-marketed "11-day rewrite" before being shipped as a release, and in the process introduced hundreds of new issues.

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jmull • today at 7:45 PM

What's easier, maintaining PHP or migrating/breaking every single PHP-based site?

And who's to say whatever sites are migrated to won't be "sunsetted" in a few decades too?

Seems like a no-brainer to maintain it.

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glimshe • today at 7:33 PM

How cheap are code migrations nowadays? Vibe-migrations, you mean?

whatthejesus • today at 7:43 PM

Sounds like you’ve been snorting too much iron oxide.

rbanffy • today at 8:40 PM

I agree a lot of PHP applications can be ported to other tools, but that only covers that much. Just look at banks and COBOL code.

thinkindie • today at 8:06 PM

migrating to what? just take a look at the newest CVEs, https://www.tenable.com/cve/newest , and you will see that no technology is spared by high or critical reports.