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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PHP7 Performance

[darkain]

I've been benchmarking the PHP 7 RCs against HHVM and PHP 5.6 for quite some time now with my own framework. I'm still perplexed as to why they are claiming it is faster than HHVM. Maybe in some specific benchmark? On my in-house framework, HHVM pushes nearly twice the requests-per-second performance compared to PHP 7. However, on the command line, PHP both 5.6 and 7 have a significantly faster startup time, but this point is mostly irrelevant for web servers.

Cue the haters

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Cue the PHP haters to flood this topic with endless criticisms and loads of "it's SO awful" stories about how terrible PHP is.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I like PHP, and coding in it enabled me to make a shitload of money over the last dozen years or so. It still makes me money every single day, and all at a cost to me of almost nothing. Linux, Apache, mySQL, and PHP -the classic LAMP stack- has been very, very good to me.

Hate on it all you want, but working alone in my little home office I learned and used PHP to make more than enough money to buy a nice home, travel the world, support my family, and live a very comfortable life.

Is it the "best" language? I have no idea, but it's good enough for me and that's what counts.

So please, feel free to tell me how terrible and horrible it is. :)