RE: [PHP-DEV] Are PECL modules preferable?

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Schinkel > > That is a utopian sentiment, but not valid in the corporate world that uses > managed hosting because they are focused on operating their business and > not on having to spend time, resources and management expertise in > securing and running servers on the Internet. Not sure if using "corporate world" in this argument is good either. "Corporate world" typically doesn't want to change anything hence ~50% of the world still runs on PHP5. You will probably get more usage/adoption of the particular new feature in a php5/7 compatible php pecl extension rather than waiting for a managed hosting to upgrade to PHP 8/NEXT (see something like imagick, memcache or redis - not in a core at all, but probably rarely any host without those). As for the "ensures many PHP developers will _never_ have access to them" - nowadays when everything can run in containerized environments where you can setup/configure php in whatever manner you like or the software needs, it usually isn't a problem anymore. rr