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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.