nerds.

What great pleasure this thread gave me. My Thai daughter confirmed the joke and, after a very painful explanation of bases, was laughing (tentatively) along with me.

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And what if providing different user experiences is the next thing Facebook should aim towards? What if users would actually enjoy being able to choose from different UIs? "Which one do you use?"

I am not referring to responsive web here.

It just won on 1st attempt here. Good job

I just went over your bandwith limit... first request worked, refresh, exceeded :(

More like... 1 vulnerability

Yes, PHP can suck in many ways. Yes, everything else seems to be more elegant. And yes, newbies don't care. They just want it to work, no matter how. They don't care about creating servers (node) or including something they know nothing about (sinatra). Heck, they might do it with PHP as well, if they knew how to (Kohana?). But they don't and they never will.

On the other side, put good developers on a PHP project and you will get a good product, regardless of the haystack position and possibility to suppress errors (etc. etc. etc.). The fact that there is so much spaghetti PHP out there doesn't make it impossible to write good code with it. And that matters a lot.

IMHO, you're trying too hard to fix the things which aren't broken in the first place. Covering the main flaws in PHP would be sufficient, e.g.

    str = 'foo'.replace('#', '').substr(1).as_array();
    int = 5.something();

would translate to

    $str = 'foo';
    $str = str_replace('#', '', $str);
    $str = substr($str, 1);
    $str = (array) $str;
    
    $int = 5;
    $int = something($int);

This would allow us to do things that aren't native to PHP but still have something much easier. Having strings, integers and other types used as objects (with a solid proxy syntax to the native functions) would be the first (and best) step forward.

Class definitions as well:

    Foo {
        // constants 
        BAR = 'fubar',
        BAR2 = 'foo';
        
        // properties
        protected _bar, _fubar;
    
        // public properties / methods
        public
        bar() {
            return ._bar;
        },
        fubar() {
            return ._bar + ._fubar;
        }
    }

The only two things I miss from Windows are Notepad++ and Total Commander (Ultima Prime). Killer combo.

I also miss Winamp (although not that much) and Miranda (IM client). When I'm on Linux I rather don't use any dedicated IM client at all. Just IRC + something web based.

As with text editor, I never used Notepad++ too much but at the moment I use Komodo Edit. It seems fine to me and it is cross platform.

Winamp? Bah, Foobar2000 is where it was at. Tiny resource usage, infinitely customizable, and an arcane UI. Switching to anything else feels like that cold, uneasy feeling you get when you run your favorite editor on a machine without your personal config file and try to use one of your custom keybindings.

Was the same for me. For a Total Commander replacement give Forklift a try. It's not quite the same, but pretty good. I'm pretty much not touching Finder at all any more.