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I suspect this'll be the basis of a new major version, based on early discussions. It probably won't be a 5.x release.
by LawnGnome 12y ago
I suspect this'll be the basis of a new major version, based on early discussions. It probably won't be a 5.x release.
- frik 12y agoThere are already PHP 6 books out there from 2009 (planned v6 renamed to 5.3): https://www.google.com/search?q=php+6&tbm=bks https://www.google.com/search?q=php+6&tbm=bks They could name it PHP 7 to avoid further confusion.
- velodrome 12y agoPHP 6 was really about unicode support. It will actually create even confusion among veterans. Also, those PHP 6 books are really aimed at beginners. In addition, skipping a version number also creates confusion. If they were going to go this route, they should have done it a long time ago (around 2010-2011). http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-what-happened-to-unicode-and-php-6 http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-...
- nly 12y agoYeah well... give it just a couple of more years and there will be kids born as Perl 6 was announced getting webdev jobs.
- BorisMelnik 12y agoWith claims / benchmarks like this I am sure you are right, particularly for a product that ships as much as WordPress does. Wordpress 3.6 – 20.0% gain (253 vs 211 req/sec) I have a few enterprise sites that I am constantly looking for ways to optimize for speed: DNS, CDNs etc. This looks like an easy win.
- ErrantX 12y agoLooks like it will be 5.7 which is great! Just tested against our codebase, and it builds very quickly (maybe 15-20% increase in speed in unit tests) so very impressed!