Although the first alpha build of PHP7 was released just two weeks ago, the second build is already being rolled out. A variety of issues from 5.6 have been fixed as part of version 7's alpha build, and a rather comprehensive overview of new features and other language changes have been posted on PHP's official GitHub repository. Some of the most notable improvements are the boasted performance enhancement over PHP5.6, claimed to be up to twice as fast on 64-bit systems, and the well-debated inclusion of scalar type hints.
Additional history of the drafted and implemented changes for version 7 can be seen at the PHP Request for Comments Wiki.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 25 2015, @03:32PM
ill informed businessmen also lead to the notion that java was suitable for croos platfor development.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:01PM
It's not? Or are you just thinking of a handful of use-cases where it doesn't make sense and ignoring the literally millions of examples where Java works just fine cross-platform?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:52PM
Ive written quite a lot of c++ crossplatform code. Ivenever seen java work as well as what is easily achieved with c++.
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(Score: 2) by fleg on Friday June 26 2015, @03:14AM
in what context?