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MediaWiki has to support PHP 7 for the community of wikis outside Wikipedia that use it. If they dropped PHP 7 support they would be making MediaWiki a bit of
by Washuu 8y ago
MediaWiki has to support PHP 7 for the community of wikis outside Wikipedia that use it. If they dropped PHP 7 support they would be making MediaWiki a bit of an insular project.
- debacle 8y agoOr Facebook could sponsor their development on hhvm and use that to promote hack lang.
- Washuu 8y agoThen every single third party extension developer would also have to move to Hack. Knowing what I know about certain extension developers that will never happen and a hard fork of MediaWiki will occur.