W/r/t the goals: – Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers > – Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release, to the > general tech audience
The page's design does a *great* job of promoting PHP 8 to existing PHP developers, but a general tech audience skeptical of PHP's modern-day relevance is unlikely to be swayed by improvements to WordPress performance. I'm not sure that PHP's reputation with non-PHP developers can be improved by a splash page. As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief homepage intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g. typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be slightly tweaked to make everything seem newer, while still keeping the (very good) content basically the same.
