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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.
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PHP Development Team Announces PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2
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Ryan's Law:
Make three correct guesses consecutively
and you will establish yourself as an expert.
(Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Thursday June 25 2015, @04:01PM
Sometimes a lesser product succeeds where a better product fails.
History is chock full of such examples. What I've observed over the last 10 years, is that as newer languages have a meteoric rise and subsequent fall, PHP seems to be consistently popular. Sure there are Ruby sites, and Django sites, and .net sites and .jsp sites, but the fact is that PHP runs a huge percentage of the web quite competently. Perhaps this is aided by the fact that it's dead-nuts simple to get something serving a php site, or that its also simple to get PHP sites to scale, or there is just a really low barrier to entry -- perhaps some magic combination there of.
Is it the Lowest Common Denominator of web programming languages? Probably.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? I don't think so.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.