On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:
> Once you're done thinking, decide for yourself. Does it make sense to be > discussing new language level features every other week? Or should we, > perhaps, > invest more in other fronts, which would be beneficial for a far bigger > audience. The levels above - extensions to keep with the latest > technologies, > foundation classes, etc. Pretty much, the same direction other mature > languages > went to. > Won't comment one the rest of this (to avoid more flame), but wanted to say something about this: If you want more foundation classes / libraries, then what PHP has to do is move more of it's standard library to PHP. C has a large implementational overhead and an even larger entry barrier. To make major advances on the library front, it needs to move to PHP. There are some tough problems associated with this, but I think they can be solved and PHP would benefit a lot from this. Nikita
