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Irrelevant how? I doubt BlueHost, HostGator, Dreamhost, etc, and on and on will have implemented HHVM as their core PHP offering by then. Most web hosts still h
by trebor 12y ago
Irrelevant how? I doubt BlueHost, HostGator, Dreamhost, etc, and on and on will have implemented HHVM as their core PHP offering by then. Most web hosts still have PHP 5.3 installed, and even the PHP 5.4 I've used on Media Temple's servers is out of date.
But at the rate PHP's release cycle has accelerated (remember that 5.3 dates from 2009...) it's entirely likely that the trend will continue. And more hosts are offering up-to-date PHP versions as an option.
I still see a future for Zend PHP.
- kolev 12y agoIn 2 years, HHVM will perform so much faster than PHP 6 and Hack will offer so many added benefits that even the shared hosting guys will switch to it as it will make them serve more sites with the same hardware plus developers will push to have Hack in place anyway.
- coldtea 12y agoThat's not how it normally works with those kinds of re-implementations. Heck, Python 3 hasn't even replaced Python 2 -- and people will dump PHP for Hack? A language which doesn't even have a community at the moment, it's 99% Facebook people.
- kolev 12y agoPython 3 is a different story! As you mention below outliers, let's not use them, please! GNU/Linux OS does not depend on PHP like it depends on Python.
- kolev 12y agoAlso, if we have to use Python as an example, then PyPy was a better analogy than Python 3.
- coldtea 12y agoOnly I compared PHP to Hack above. PyPy would be a better analogy to HHVM-PHP.