PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too

TheTomcat writes "After years of anticipation, PHP 5 was released today. This release represents a milestone in the evolution of PHP. It sports the new Zend Engine II, a completely re-worked object model, and many many new features. Check it and the changelog out." In other PHP news, remote_bob writes "There have been many attempts, like BinaryPHP and PASM, but finally there is a complete compiler for PHP. The Roadsend compiler produces standalone, native executables, and supports the entire PHP language (but not all extensions). It uses Bigloo Scheme to do its job, a variant of Lisp, the language that Paul Graham writes about. Benchmarks say that performance is pretty good. Is this another sign that dynamic languages are the future?"

Comments

Re:the past is the future

[D-Cypell]

I think I might even start porting some of my code to punch cards, by the time they return to the mainstream I could be a 6-figure consultant.

Re:Goodbye Perl?

[ErikZ]

I have a very difficult time debugging perl scripts and figuring out how to do new things with it.

PHP is more like a more friendly. Allows you to fumble around and then gives you informative errors. Kind of like your first Girlfriend. :)

Well, the first week of her anyways.