Paraunit 0.9: PHP 7, PHPUnit 6 and the pipelines

After a long time and a lot of work, Paraunit 0.9 has been released. This release is a big step ahead: now Paraunit runs with PHPUnit 6, and support to older versions is dropped; this also means that the minimum supported PHP version is now 7.0, and the minimum version of the Symfony components is bumped to 2.7, since older versions are out of support since may.

Why type hints and interfaces are not visual debt

A few days ago I stumbled on a strange tweet that was highlighting a controversy about scalar type hints.

Scalar type hints & return types vs no scalar type hints & return types is #PHP's new spaces vs tabs

— Cees-Jan 🔊 Kiewiet (@WyriHaximus)

After asking references about this, someone alluded to this very short video: “PHP Bits: Visual Debt” (it’s only 3 minutes, please watch it before continue reading). After that, the author of the video was dragged into the conversation, and it blew up into a big tweetstorm in the following few hours.