> ... > 3. Putting your apparent personal bias against backwards compatibility > aside - if P++ goes in the directions you're hoping for - towards giving > you the goodies on your wish list, why would you care if PHP still existed > without these new changes/features? > > Zeev
I just want to express a personal bias - joy at reading the proposal. Our php code goes back to approx 2002. We did get a performance improvement moving to PHP7 and it has allowed us to integrate with third party modules that were not compatible with PHP5, but it also required many, many hours that were not spent moving our application forward in other ways. I think the #1 reason for changing PHP versions for us is security policy. If a PHP version is "end of life" we must move on, no matter how much pain it causes and how perfectly acceptably everything was functionally running on the older version. The idea of having code that works be allowed to continue to work is very, very appealing. I don't want people who want to go in bold new directions to be held back; the proposal seems like something that would help me sleep more peacefully while allowing the adventurous to proceed. Thanks! - Todd (usually quiet here)
