PHP 7 Ready For Release (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: After a long wait web developers can finally start migrating their code to PHP 7. The new version comes with minimal syntax modifications, and is more focused on improving performance and upgrading PHP's core interpreter. Softpedia reports: "As mentioned above, PHP 7 is focused on speed, and benchmarks carried out over the past few months, have shown it to be almost twice as fast as older PHP 5.x releases, and neck in neck with Facebook's HHVM project, a Just-In-Time compiler for PHP code." A full list of new features is available here.

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PHP has not yet been released

[Anonymous Coward]

Unlike slashdot's normal habit of running behind the times with news stories, this one is too early.

PHP 7 is slated for a full release tomorrow.

Good job guys....

Logan's run for languages

[goombah99]

All languages start out cute and fuzzy then become smelly adolescents. By the time they hit 7.0 there should be a logan's run for languages.

Re:Is it still a clusterfuck?

[hcs_$reboot]

All of them have been addresses. Below is sample code of what PHP7 looks like

public static void main(String[] args){
Scanner scannerToReadAirlines = null;
try{
scannerToReadAirlines = new Scanner(new File("airlines.txt"));
}
catch(IOException e){
System.out.println("Could not connect to file airlines.txt.");
}
if(scannerToReadAirlines != null){
ArrayList<Airline> airlinesPartnersNetwork = new ArrayList<Airline>();
Airline newAirline;
String[] airlineNames;

}
}