Re: PHP 8 next?

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 4:11 PM Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > > > > > -----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 > Neither JIT nor FFI require backwards compatibility breaks in language. I don't think either of those particular features would substantially break the C API either. If these are the motivations for PHP 8 then I strongly object.