The Present and Future of PHP

2018. Máté Kocsis

But let's first talk about...

The dark past of PHP

PHP was created by Rasmus Lerdolf in 1994

Initially, PHP was only a

TEMPLATING LANGUAGE

FOR A BACKEND WRITTEN IN C

it then led to weird inconsistencies we all know

PHP ended up being:

  • general purpose

  • dynamic typed

  • shared nothing architecture

  • procedural and object oriented

  • slow

  • unsafe

  • inconvenient

PHP today...

PHP 7.x

Vastly improved type safety

Improved performance by 1.5+ times

Memory-related optimizations

Initial JIT support

What will PHP 7.4 look like?

🎉 Preloading 🎉

Paves the road for PHP 8 via deprecations

So what about PHP 8?

Should be the next release after PHP 7.4

JIT is no longer the first priority

Better support for long-running, async execution

Foreign Function Interface support

Other features PHPeople want

Scalar objects

What do you want?

PHP is going to be cool!

Thanks!

The Present and Future of PHP

By Máté Kocsis

The Present and Future of PHP

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