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
- 613