Beginners being herded into command line due to composer

  • Good. PHP developers are being forced to meet a minimum standard of competence that the rest of the programming world met years ago. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

    And I say that as a PHP developer who spent the majority of his time working through FTP and a text editor, manually dealing with dependencies, installing from ZIP files, dealing with the peculiarities of hand-rolled autoloaders and module systems. Drag them all into the harsh light of modernity.

    And by "modernity" I mean "the modernity of thirty years ago," but nevertheless. Given the choice between sane dependency management in PHP and not learning the command line learn the command line.

  • How it's this in anyway a composer issue? Should this not be an issue on a specific project which is using composer? I am of the opinion that this is a non-issue overall.