Re: Changing fundamental language behaviors

Le 12/09/2019 à 20:51, Peter Kokot a écrit : > Just a dumb idea, since there clearly is a majority in favor of the > change with these warnings and strictness and all that now... Why not > making something like an LTS PHP 7.x where all the legacy code would > work OK as long as practically possible and 8.x+ would be the future > of what the developers want and not what business wants? One who won't > upgrade due to the BC breaks also won't need the new features anyway > very realistically. > > Microsoft, Zend, and Red Hat have been showing that this is actually > possible. How smart this is for the PHP progress is another story, but > for the business it might be good to think about this also I guess: > https://github.com/microsoft/php-src/releases > > So, to make some sort of a milestone with some of the versions - > either 8 or 9 or something. This is chicken and eggs problem "Maintained because used" or "used because maintained" ? PHP 7 was a very good version, with good BC, and speed of adoption is quite good. But some users still old 5.x From download of my repo [1] In January, ~35% for 5.6 In August, down to ~28% IMHO, more BC breaks will mean more time to adapt code and more slow adoption by users. So Yes, we'll need a longer support time for 7.4, as we have extended support for 5.6 by 1 year). Perhaps more will be needed for 7.4. But yes, we are allowed to change things and dream of a perfect language, like Perl 6... Remi [1] this are only numbers... from about 5k RPM download per day, and probably artificially bigger for EOL versions, because I'm the only repo to provide them.