For seven consecutive years, PHP owns the fourth in the most popular programming language in the world, and supplies more than 200 millions websites, with more than 81,7 percent of public websites.
Η PHP he made a huge leap this week with the first big change from 2004 when the 5.0 version was released.
The new 7 version has a total improved performance, estimated up to three times more than the last PPH 5.6 according to some benchmarks.
It also features other smaller changes such as significantly reduced usage μνήμηq, return type statements, spaceship operator and many more.
PPH 7 contains a series of changes, such as removing PΗP safely modes, the magic quotes, a series of new retained keywords and more.
While PHP 7 is now available, it is likely to take some time before it is widely adopted by program and website builders. The Web applications they tend to upgrade to new versions after years.
However, the performance improvements brought by 7 are quite large, and this will tempt manufacturers to make corresponding upgrades much earlier than usual.
