Hi!
> And yes, I know these are much harder and less sexy than adding a couple
> of tokens to the yacc grammar, but when we start looking at a new major
> release this is what I hear from people who are running PHP in
> production environments are looking for. Language features are nice, if
> they are well thought out, but significant infrastructure improvements
> are nicer.
I wholeheartedly agree. There were a lot of attention lately to adding
new syntaxes, and not as much attention at all to adding new APIs and
improving existing APIs, and in my opinion, language APIs matter no less
than syntax, especially in a glue language like PHP, maybe even more.
Figuring how to do databases uniformly and take PDO into 21st century
would be a huge boon, people could stop reinventing the bicycle of
database abstraction layer over and over. We though PDO would take this
niche but looks like it wasn't enough.
Adding more capabilities like nonblocking operations, or more APIs that
now are being reimplemented in each app separately (autoloading?
escaping? logging? here feedback from major projects could be very useful).
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Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
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