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After years of defending PHP...

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J Jeremy Falcon

The below YouTube post got me thinking, after years of defending PHP on CP, I will admit there is one thing that I think is utterly stupid about it - it doesn't support unsigned integers. And you can't specify which size of an integer you want. It's a 32-bit int on 32-bit systems and a 64-bit int on 64-bit systems. Period. End of story. You want something else, that's your problem. Deal with it. Almost makes me wonder if that's why YT had the signed counter in the first place, for compatibility with web technologies such as that. And PHP is still a great tool, but like most environments there are some WTF things about it. This is one of them.

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Sounds like an opportunity to me. PHP is in fact open source. Like it's been pointed out in this thread, there are many community things out there that you can use to overcome your hurdles.
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