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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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  1. Re:Is it still a clusterfuck? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "I need static typing" == "I'm too lazy to keep track of what I'm doing with my variables"