I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by mentioning Hack.

At this point it's diverged from PHP to the point that it's basically a different language, is (IIRC) actually slower than PHP 8, and the HHVM doesn't even support PHP any more.

As such, it's not a huge surprise that relatively few people outside of Meta give it much attention.

I also moved on from PHP several years ago, and don't miss it. That doesn't mean I don't recognise that there are still perfectly legitimate reasons to choose it.

Yep.

And meta/hack is probably the other huge mainstay of PHP outside of what the person you responded to said. And hack with HHVM was supposed to be the panacea for PHP

Just saying.

What people used to use PHP for tasks, has largely been replaced by Python.

> And still nobody outside of Meta cares about hack.

Because everyone is OK with PHP. I'm not even using it directly but most of the web runs on it.

Not PHP, but wordpress.

For Wayland I just use this:

        alias pbcopy='xsel --clipboard --input'
        alias pbpaste='xsel --clipboard --output'

I used to do the same thing on Xorg with xclip I think

Switching between macOS for job and linux for everything else, I’ve honestly never realized any difference.

I'm confused; xsel, as you might imagine from the name, is very specifically a program for manipulating the X11 selection and clipboard. So it does work on Xorg, but I'm very confused that it would work in any meaningful capacity on Wayland. Are you somehow using Xwayland?

I run KDE usually so I imagine it's xwayland.

That's really my problem with these kind of critiques.

EVERY language has certain pitfalls like this. Back when I wrote PHP for 20+ years I had a Google doc full of every stupid PHP pitfall I came across.

And they were always almost a combination of something silly in the language, and horrible design by the developer, or trying to take a shortcut and losing the plot.

I know many people that still use it because it does all formats, it’s what they’ve been using forever, and the UI is so much better than using zip on Windows.

Of course, RAR usage nowadays is probably a bit more limited to things like usenet downloads, so the people caring enough to install an alternative decompressor is narrowing.

One has actual legal consequences. Mental health is a far more nebulous thing.

They are really only private if you design it that way. There are numerous ways you could have access to those private parts of your bashrc, but still make the actual bashrc public.

That's coming from my kubernetes background though, and handling secrets this way is not something that people are always accustomed to.

That would be quite the percentage difference with 100x

They won't do it?

Something something seventh incarnation. This is hardly the first time they've changed architectures. I'm actually a little impressed they actually held on this long.

Intel emulation effectively sucks compared to native apps in every way.

This is where we are.

I mean, Steve Jobs had basically the only type of pancreatic cancer that people walk away from, and he’s dead because he was into alternative medicine

And Microsoft, literally call it the DRM flag. DRM doesn't insist on being encrypted.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/...

And that "simple Windows API" call is pretty much absolute, since it's across the stack.