SergeyPopoff
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Professional PHP developer.
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Comment · 11 years ago
Congratulations then! Hope you enjoyed writing code in Go.
Comment · 11 years ago
I want to see benchmark comparsion with the Rust version.
Comment · 11 years ago
Wow, SIMD.js looks neat, thank you for pointing me to this! They even has Intel involved with this.
WebAssembly looks very very promising too.
Comment · 11 years ago
Looks interesting! I'm all in for writing secure code. Sadly, Zend said that they don't want PHP to change a lot because of backwards compatibility, and that's why we are still stuck with different bad ideas that appeared in its first versions...
PHP 7 will help to speed up Wordpress sites twice, but it doesn't help with code itself anyhow. I haven't looked at it for a long time, but back then its code was pretty bad. Drupal 8 built on top of Symfony 2 components is terrifying, as PHP's main selling point (and Drupal specifically) alwasy was simplicity.
This article gives some details on the future of the language: https://blog.amasty.com/php-7-and-script-languages-future-in...
Comment · 11 years ago
PHP is just another tool. If we're talking about backend, then its perfomance is good enough for small to middle sized applications. PHP borrowed a lot of language features from other languages in the last decade, it's a different language now, still there is a lot of old poor written code.
PHP 7 is great for those who are already used PHP for years, cause it uses half of CPU resources doing the same tasks as PHP 5.6. I don't think there is any good reason switching from Golang for example if you are aiming for writing scalable applications; still, every experienced PHP dev I know are still getting their things done and doesn't consider switching.
Comment · 11 years ago
Thank you for the great advice!
You're right, I definitely should update my sample.