Re: PHP 8 next?

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: >> 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. > > 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. > Any one of JIT or async/long-running alone would be enough to merit the bump, so yeah, I'm provisionally on board with that. FFI is cool and all, but it's also not really a major-bump-worthy feature. I didn't realize the JIT was to the point that it was showing real promise. Last update I'd heard was that it was academically interesting, but underwhelming in practice. -Sara