PHP 7.1.0 Released
Why can't they just start supporting a new extension that is pure PHP and both ways compatible? Like, no template tags, no global weirdly named functions (namespaces!) and a total cleanup of the library? Also maybe drop the $ and use def or let or whatever? Perhaps add a tool to bundle the script with the interpreter, for reliable deployments? You know, for when you grow out of the "shared hosting" phase?<p>That is MUCH but why not on the very long term? One can dream.<p>Something like a disclaimer: Last time I seriously used PHP, rumors said that PHP 6 was going to be big. I actually fiddled a bit with PHP 7 too. I wrote a file sharing script (incredibly messy code because the minutes I spent on it are in the same order of magnitude of those I spent on this comment), which turned out to be damn fast and I am impressed. Saying this as a person who enjoys Rust and Go.