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>>TimWol+(OP)
The worst part about PHP is constantly hearing from its detractors, who are often people who haven’t used the language in many years. Haystack needle order, $, fractal of bad design, it just gets old.

The language isn’t perfect but I love working with it, these 8.1 and 8.2 improvements have really made it sweet.

My biggest gripe at the moment is the (very old) behavior of e.g. preg_match() and sort(). You’ve got a small handful of these common functions that operate on their input by reference/in place which is gross. A new version of these would be welcome.

>>user39+j7
> My biggest gripe at the moment is the (very old) behavior of e.g. preg_match()...

Do you mean how you can have an optional out parameter to get more detail than what the return parameter gives for which group matched?

Personally i dont see anything wrong with that, but to each their own.