Two snippets I found significant and good news: Q: What about backward compatibility? I’m worried that PHP might go down the path that Python went down with P

Two snippets I found significant and good news: Q: What about backward compatibility? I’m worried that PHP might go down the path that Python went down with Python 3 not compatible with Python 2. Rasmus: We’re not planning a Python type of break. Chances are that anything that breaks in PHP 6 will be features that resulted in pretty hard warnings in PHP 5 [...] No drastic changes are planned in PHP 6. Q: What’s your take on the static code analysis? Rasmus: [...] The community is hoping to get Facebook to release their static analysis system as a standalone tool. [...] Btw. the linked slides provide a good overview of new features.