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      <p>Something that came up in my discussion with Dave Liddament for the Beyond Blocks podcast was that there seem to be two ways of writing PHP code.</p>

      <p>One is writing strict code by enabling strict typing, using parameter and return types, and leveraging tools like PHPStan at a high level to analyze code.</p>

      <p>The other is no not use types and to use a more "duck typing" approach.</p>

      <p>The term "visual debt" came from a video discussing the pros and cons of these approaches.</p>

      <p>The same can be said for JavaScript and TypeScript, but PHP can do both and gives the Developer the choice of how they write their code.</p>

      <p>I prefer writing strict code and for my code to be as explicit as possible, but I appreciate not everyone does and I like that PHP caters for both.</p>

      <p>How do you write your PHP code?</p>

              
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      <p>Something that came up in my discussion with Dave Liddament for the Beyond Blocks podcast was that there seem to be two ways of writing PHP code.</p>

      <p>One is writing strict code by enabling strict typing, using parameter and return types, and leveraging tools like PHPStan at a high level to analyze code.</p>

      <p>The other is no not use types and to use a more "duck typing" approach.</p>

      <p>The term "visual debt" came from a video discussing the pros and cons of these approaches.</p>

      <p>The same can be said for JavaScript and TypeScript, but PHP can do both and gives the Developer the choice of how they write their code.</p>

      <p>I prefer writing strict code and for my code to be as explicit as possible, but I appreciate not everyone does and I like that PHP caters for both.</p>

      <p>How do you write your PHP code?</p>

              
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