[nhtechie]

PHPNG is actually the official next version of PHP. If the PHPNG team is dead that means no active development is being done on PHP (period).

[detaro]

If PHPNG dies they simply could elect a different environment to be the official one. Just because PHPNG is "the future" right now doesn't mean the fate of the language is tied to it forever.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

It's all well and good labelling HHVM the new official environment, but a lot of existing code does not work on HHVM.