[fiedzia]

> They care. They are interested.

Have they really been, PHP issues would be fixed long time ago. It had 7 major releases, and people complain about exactly the same things. All the people I know who complain about it and switch to something else say the exact same things, no matter what PHP version they've left behind. Those who do care simply go somewhere else, only those who do not or have massive codebase to support stay.

> PHP7 is much better

Lets agree to disagree on that. Its not better enough to draw any of PHP opponents to it.

> you still have hosts running PHP 5.3, some even running 5.2! How do you combat a crowd like that?

You don't. Let them be. There are people using PHP 1,2,3 and 4 somewhere out there. They may never switch. Why should it hold back the rest of the world?

> I don't want PHP to get stuck in IE6 mode

The whole PHP is its own IE6.

[dreistdreist]

Taking into considering that the thing you complained about (errors instead of exceptions) was fixed in PHP 7, maybe you should reevaluate your opinion about PHP not fixing things in newer versions...