TypePHP, native PHP, NativePHP: the ecosystem has a vocabulary problem PHP names things by accretion. A word gets used for something, then reused for something adjacent, then reused again by a project that picked the name because it was available on Packagist. Nobody arbitrates. Ten years later you have a conference hallway conversation where two […]
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The Path Not Taken: everything that can go wrong with a path A path is a string. And, just like concatenation, this is the source of all our troubles. PHP treats it as a string, the filesystem treats it as a sequence of bytes with opinions, and Windows treats it as a suggestion. Somewhere in […]