There was a little confusion about what was proposed, despite his words being quite clear. This is going to be VERY long, for I have no idea how to sum up things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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They founded the bases of what we know today.
Zeev Suraski left Zend a few weeks ago. He said “he’s still in tech”. No more for now. :)
Now Zend is part of Rogue Wave Software (@RogueWaveInc).
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🔵 Bugs (bugs.php.net)
🔵 Legacy management and unused stuff dropping
🔵 Evolutive facets that follow the new world
🔵 Abstract proposals made to test new, fuzzy stuff
🔵 A bug in parse_url()
🔵 Deprecating __autoload() magic function in PHP 7.2.0
🔵 Implementing the foreign functions interface (FFI)
🔵 Moving from an AOT compiler to a JIT compiler.
2. Adding functionalities that embrace new paradigms, which is mandatory. Change or die.
- How to implement new, radical changes at the same time so as to make strategic, enterprise-friendly moves (i.e., to enroll CTOs worldwide)?
- In the RFC wiki: wiki.php.net/pplusplus/faq
- In the internals list: externals.io/message/106453
- (alternately, on Mailing lists ARChives: marc.info/?l=php-interna…)
- Kotlin/Clojure/Groovy/Scala for Java,
- C#/Rust/C++/Cilk/Objective-C for C
- Dart/ESX/TypeScript/CoffeeScript/ES6 for Javascript
And please, remember: this is JUST a FAQ, just a draft of thoughts. This is an open discussion that top-level people are having, not a C-level “do it or you’re fired” instruction.
You have a great day. Peace.
(poke me if you need French translation of all this crap!)