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I don't really follow PHP much, so indulge me - what happened to PHP 6?

• simonw 12y ago
  It was meant to be the big unicode refactor, but they killed the project back in 2010. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php6 has some background.
• deleted 12y ago
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• trebor 12y ago
  The PHP working group decided that they didn't want the baggage belonging to the previous attempt to color PHPNG. There's still a lot of articles about the "PHP 6" that never came to be. So they've decided to skip version 6 and go straight to PHP 7. I think it's silly, personally.
• gburnett 12y ago
  Not much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#PHP_6_and_Unicode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#PHP_6_and_Unicode
• icehawk219 12y ago
  What was supposed to be PHP 6 got turned into 5.5 after their attempt at unicode support went south. So now a bunch of folks want the next major version to be named PHP 7 on the basis that the name "PHP 6" has been tarnished. As a primarily PHP developer right now I honestly don't care what they call it as long as it moves the language forward. But the simple fact that there was a grand debate on the mailing list about something so meaningless and unimportant while important things are ignored is just more confirmation that my decision to begin moving away from the language was the right one.