Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
by xav0989 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:53PM
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You also had facebook pumping resources into PHP with HPHPc, HHVM, trying to compile a spec, etc.
That definitely would have helped keep PHP alive through the period between PHP 5 and PHP 7.
Additionally, PHP's releases of 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 introduced enough new functionality that the bump was more than incremental. It had backwards-breaking changes, which should have warranted a new major release if PHP followed semver.
That definitely would have helped keep PHP alive through the period between PHP 5 and PHP 7.
Additionally, PHP's releases of 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5 introduced enough new functionality that the bump was more than incremental. It had backwards-breaking changes, which should have warranted a new major release if PHP followed semver.