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by proyb2 3907 days ago
True, but I'm concerning Wordpress are popular and Drupal 8 have revamped for the better or worst.

On the Node.js side, Coffeescript or Typescript write less code if confidence enough to be careful, won't it be better if PHP have a way to write less and more secure? http://mammouth.wamalaka.com
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SergeyPopoff 3907 days ago
Looks interesting! I'm all in for writing secure code. Sadly, Zend said that they don't want PHP to change a lot because of backwards compatibility, and that's why we are still stuck with different bad ideas that appeared in its first versions...

PHP 7 will help to speed up Wordpress sites twice, but it doesn't help with code itself anyhow. I haven't looked at it for a long time, but back then its code was pretty bad. Drupal 8 built on top of Symfony 2 components is terrifying, as PHP's main selling point (and Drupal specifically) alwasy was simplicity.

This article gives some details on the future of the language: https://blog.amasty.com/php-7-and-script-languages-future-in...

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proyb2 3907 days ago
Yeah, right thinking, I'm disappointed without Drupal 8 after waiting all these years. Wordpress could be where at PHP5.x native speed if they are on PHP7.

After that tweaking, I think you might be interested in SIMD for Javascript and hopefully, WebAssembly will make PHP even speedier performance.

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SergeyPopoff 3907 days ago
Wow, SIMD.js looks neat, thank you for pointing me to this! They even has Intel involved with this.

WebAssembly looks very very promising too.

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