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> Paid my share of dealing with those problems with PHP 5 and 6 Hard to take this seriously when there was no PHP 6. https://ma.ttias.be/php6-missing-version-

• artyom 5mo ago
  Correct. If you were there, you'd remember the UTF8/Unicode fiasco (how long it took, how many people was both relying and struggling with it, and how they needed to cover it up after even some hosting providers attempted a beta upgrade and had to roll it back). There was a PHP 6 (I'm including the non-updates in PHP 5 "waiting" for it), they just had to rewrite history as of PR damage control back then. That's what the article you linked describes, pretty much.