They can't do that though. PHP is so successful and ubiquitous because it's been backwards compatible for a really long time. Most PHP apps run very well on 5.2 Which was released over 6 years ago.
I think the way PHP is evolving is how it has always evolved. No one's thinking 5 years into the future. But I argue that they don't have to. PHP doesn't win on it's big design advantage, it wins on all of the small parts that it haphazardly releases (I don't mean that in a bad way).
I think the way PHP is evolving is how it has always evolved. No one's thinking 5 years into the future. But I argue that they don't have to. PHP doesn't win on it's big design advantage, it wins on all of the small parts that it haphazardly releases (I don't mean that in a bad way).