I didn't read the replies first, but will post my response to the question. I started working on a customers PHP project in Sept 2020, which was written in PHP 4.2 between 2004 to 2010 by some Chinese students from China. They did a terrible job, and everything you can possibly do wrong they did wrong. I can't even read the code. Anyways, it was so bad, that I told the customer that they really need to sort of start from scratch again. Why I chose pure PHP 7.4 for them. Drum roll please .... Because of time and money ... So many of the new technologies are constantly being updated so fast, that it's hard to keep up with the changes. PHP 7.4 is still that Swiss Army knife that can do almost anything, and PHP doesn't bug you to update code, or doesn't require a team of skilled software engineers to maintain over decades. Once you write it and deploy, it can run for a long time without more time and money. I can move on to the next project, and the customer can use their new app for years to come, and pass that app to their next generation of children that will take over the business when they come home from College or University. Our economy in the US has a strong service sector, comprised of small business owners with family involved, and have become generational now spanning their services across decades of time. I look at pure PHP 7.4+ from an economic point of view, and not from a superior technology point of view, considering time, labor, capital investment and maintenance being more stable and predictable across good times and bad. I don't agree with PHP Laravel as being a framework built on PHP, but opted for pure PHP, in which I was able to build a near MVC type of Web Application using modern objects and smarter HTML views with the objects, and include robust HTTP request and response handling, and robust security features. I have no regrets in my decision for my customers path forward, and I'm very happy with the results. Well that's my argument for PHP. May not be what you were expecting to hear or read, but I hope it satisfies your thirst to know why. If it ain't broke don't fix it Discover my world at jkirkerx.com

Well, those of us who earned our wings working 40 years ago with Commodore's digital serial protocol (IEC Bus), we don't find USB's spec weird at all. Next! :-D

Na, this [^] can be done with only 64kb (... and a bit of hw acceleration ... ), so 128kB should be more than enough :laugh: Do not escape reality : improve reality !

This comment was based on hard-won experience. Once upon a time I spent a couple days writing an app to compute some values and the math wouldn't come out the way I thought it should. I fired up Excel to test the calculations and in less than an hour I had verified them plus calculated the values I needed :-O . Software Zen: delete this;

I agree with Nelek "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

Our eldest is a Tiffanie[^], so he's the perfect prop for the aspiring Bond villain[^]. :) "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Visual Studio is way better. It works very well. However, it is heavyweight. "In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?" -- Rigoletto

For these, if it's a tech-related field and they haven't done anything wrong, please leave them for now. I agree. If you're a marketing division of a company, maybe you did create a profile here to just sit. But you definitely had to manually acquire the reputation to do so in a meaningful way. Maybe you're checking things out. Maybe you're a company creating a profile because you're doing business with us, and you're getting ready to share your or monitor your paid content. We don't want to accidentally kill those. So things like shoe repair, windows and doors, SEO, sex workers, balloon manufacturers, South East Asian Community for Women's Hosiery. Kill, kill, kill. Otherwise, https://i.imgur.com/MtEaVfR.gif[^] Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

honey the codewitch wrote: I should probably code something before this superpower wears off. No!! Step back from the keyboard. Never code while you have a superpower. Been there, done that. When you come back to it a few arbitrary-time-periods later, you won't understand it. You'll spend ages trying to figure out why it works perfectly and then more time rewriting it so that you'll understand it next time (which you probably won't). Phil The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.

The old freeware Hyperoids changed your ship color each level. If you made it to level 16, your ship would match the background! Maybe the bullets as well. A lot harder situation with Tetris!

your cat? I have a dream of one day picking out my own pet. All I get are hand me downs from the children - who have been told it will never happen again. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

What is the USP of this item ? What advantage do I have over a cheap mouse ? Do no try to fix a problem that does not exist ... Do not escape reality : improve reality !

Nice! She deserves all the play she gets. :) Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Very Mad Max trike, rider more WALL-E, Cool :cool: