[jonwinstanley]

Definitely some JS influence plus a little Swift and Java. PHP seems to be evolving faster than it has in years

[pirate787]

It's actually becoming a problem keeping pace with PHP major updates

[mschuster91]

PHP isn't Linux with its strict "never break userspace" dogma - but for real, a PHP version upgrade should not be that bad to follow.

[nicoburns]

I think 8.0 had a bunch of relatively major/annoying breaking changes, but that's the first time since the 5.x era.

[blowski]

They did give deprecation warnings in various version 7 releases, so they didn't come out of nowhere. (Not that you said they did, but for the purpose of other readers.)