I too, tried using regex to strip html tags. This was in php with hardly any knowledge of oop.
A university education really improved me there, since they trained you in Java to a high degree within 20 weeks (alongside stuff like UML). PHP is a fine starter language, but as applications grow, a more native oop approach with build-time validation, really made me a better developer.
Isn’t that what the tariffs and general idiocracy of the Republicans are for?
I’m working for the government, and most projects that were about switching to MS Teams and other US-based software suites appear to have crashed to a complete halt (which I feel no remorse over).