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The Pub / Re: PHP 5.4?
« on June 12th, 2017, 10:44 AM »
Backward compatibility is evil and leads to drastic consequences. I've created a new account to post this because of its evil. Since this topic is about 5.4, I'll choose 5.4 here, but if I were in your place, I would've simply dropped PHP 5 and required PHP 7.
PHP becomes comparable (and even better in some cases) to other scripting languages after the PHP 7 mark. It is also supposed to be much faster. PHP 5 in all its glory feels like a weak language. Not weak as in weakly typed, but weak because it feels like a toy language. You'll get more work done overall with PHP 7 in a shorter amount of time.
An additional benefit is to encourage others to upgrade their PHP versions which, whether they realize it or not, is for their own good.
PHP becomes comparable (and even better in some cases) to other scripting languages after the PHP 7 mark. It is also supposed to be much faster. PHP 5 in all its glory feels like a weak language. Not weak as in weakly typed, but weak because it feels like a toy language. You'll get more work done overall with PHP 7 in a shorter amount of time.
An additional benefit is to encourage others to upgrade their PHP versions which, whether they realize it or not, is for their own good.