Comment by echelon
3 days ago
> To be fair, the new opt-in "use strict" here is "switch to Temporal".
This. Don't break old code, just provide new best practices.
Update linters (or ideally first class language rules, like in Rust's "edition"s), to gradually kill off old behavior. Without having to do a decade long Python 2 -> 3 migration.
Temporal is nice. It learned from the many failures and dead bodies that came before it. And it had lots of good implementations to look at: Joda Time, Chrono, etc.
PHP suffers from this too. By too strict BC PHP has become a really mess of a language. IIRC there still is the ad-hoc parameter order convention and lack of any namespacing for builtins. Everything is global.
With JS i kind of get it as you cant control the env. Bit PHP does not have this limitation, and they still cant fix the mess that is PHP.