The problem is that PHP is going through growing pains a 15+ year old language should have fixed years ago, but didn't.
Now there's too much atrocious code out there that would break with updates to PHP. I firmly believe PHP.next has to declare it's going to break everything, take all that we've learned now, and build a great web language that is easy to use.
This actually seems to be happening with a lot of the "old workhorse" style languages. Perl, PHP & Python all seem to be struggling with their reinventions.
Ideally, yes... though such a move would probably void most of the reasons for using PHP in the first place -- ubiquitous availability, and popular software that is built in PHP. Take those away, and mess with conventions that all the current PHP developers are used to, and why not just use another language?
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The problem is that PHP is going through growing pains a 15+ year old language should have fixed years ago, but didn't.
Now there's too much atrocious code out there that would break with updates to PHP. I firmly believe PHP.next has to declare it's going to break everything, take all that we've learned now, and build a great web language that is easy to use.
This actually seems to be happening with a lot of the "old workhorse" style languages. Perl, PHP & Python all seem to be struggling with their reinventions.
Ideally, yes... though such a move would probably void most of the reasons for using PHP in the first place -- ubiquitous availability, and popular software that is built in PHP. Take those away, and mess with conventions that all the current PHP developers are used to, and why not just use another language?