RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 next?
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:11:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 next? | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: php@golemon.com [mailto:php@golemon.com] On Behalf Of Sara
> Golemon
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2018 1:07 AM
> To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
> Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 next?
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Based on some recent conversations, I'm getting the impression that
> > after PHP 7.3, we might want to go for PHP 8 next.
> >
> > I'd like to discuss and possibility decide this now, as that would
> > make PHP
> > 7.3 the last chance to get in deprecations.
> >
> Would you mind elaborating on your motivations for a major version bump. I'm
> not saying I disagree in principle, I'm just curious what you're seeing the drivers
> as.
This is slightly earlier than I intended to bring it up but I do too think that the next version
beyond 7.3 should be 8.
I'll send a more detailed letter next week - but in a nutshell, the main drivers I'm
seeing are JIT, FFI and possibly doing something in the front of async/long running processes. Of
course there may be other ones as well, but I think that these alone constitute sufficient grounds
for launching a new major version.
Zeev