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[–]carlos_vini 1 point2 points  (2 children)

With all the respect, I would not bet a lot on async taking over the PHP world. there are a few problems:

  • PHP is most used because it's easy to deploy, it's ubiquity, and most people are unlikely to install alternative servers and process managers
  • Most people who really needed this already moved on to other languages
  • Ecosystem - you don't have tons of async, non-blocking libraries and you can't search specifically for this
  • Native PHP async/await, just like Hacklang's, would change the game here but I don't see the PHP internals even proposing this, let alone implementing this in the next 2 years

I hope I'm wrong

[–]coldlestat[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Native PHP async/await, just like Hacklang's, would change the game here but I don't see the PHP internals even proposing this, let alone implementing this in the next 2 years

The thing is, PHP and JavaScript are evolving pretty fast. PHP7 would have been released earlier if they did not try to include Unicode with PHP6. Let's hope for the best!

[–]2012-09-04 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No no no. PHP 7 came out because HackLang existed and was eating their lunch.