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Discussion on: PHP needs its own ES6

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Juha-Matti Santala

Yeah, maintaining backwards compatibility is the key. And it's very crucial stuff because such a huge part of the Internet runs on PHP.

ES6 was an extension but for me, the things that made me fall in love with it (after a quite a while of opposition) were the changes into how Javascript is written. () => {} shorthand for functions, class shorthand, template literals, etc.

Thanks to this article, I've learned of a few ways to write more enjoyable PHP so I'm pretty happy about that. Scalar Objects extension looks pretty neat, thanks for the tip!