DevConf 2015: Interview with the author - there will be no PHP6! Meet PHP7

Dmitry Stogov - the leader of the PHPNG project and one of the main PHP developers; Lead Engineer at Zend Technologies.

- Tell a few words about yourself.

For the last 10 years I have been working at Zend, where I have been involved in the development of Open Source PHP for 2/3 of the time, and mainly performance related improvements. Actually, almost everything related to performance in PHP-7 (and indeed in PHP-5) was invented or borrowed and implemented by me.

- Can you say a few words about your report besides what is in the description?

This time, I will try not to go into the technical details of the implementation, but simply to review the major changes in PHP-7 that may affect any migrating project.
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- Who is your report focused on?

On all developers and administrators planning to use PHP-7

- What does the new listener learn about your report?

I will try to gather everything together and present information in accordance with the current status of PHP-7. Much of what was proposed in the RFC for PHP-7 was redone later.

See you at DevConf 2015 conference on June 19!

Video from the report of the last Devconf 2014 : phpng - a new engine for old php