Panel Discussion: The Future of PHP
summary
Panelists report concrete shifts: PHP 7 delivers roughly 2x+ throughput on real projects, PHP 6 was abandoned during Unicode work, and HHVM pushed performance and a language spec but now diverges. Migration from PHP 5→7 often requires only a few fixes (one TinyMCE upload incompatibility cited). Tooling gaps remain: static analysis is nascent, while composer adoption is still partial. Teams split work into containers and microservices, letting languages mix; legacy code and education gaps drive most risk.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:48Elevator Pitch
- 2:25The Future of Php
- 3:38Is php Still Cool What Is Php Ever Cool
- 4:44What Is the Difference between Relevant and Cool
- 17:49How Hard Should It Be To Migrate Your Legacy Code Base from Php 5 to Php 7
- 19:36Upgrading from an Older Version
- 28:41Static Analysis
- 31:28Composer
- 33:45How's the State of Education in the Php World
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