What's coming in PHP 7.0

Posted Dec 3, 2015 23:03 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
Parent article: What's coming in PHP 7.0

That final quote about WordPress is a bit unfortunately timed...

What's coming in PHP 7.0

Posted Dec 7, 2015 15:26 UTC (Mon) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link] (4 responses)

I fail to see a connection ... please enlighten me (us).

What's coming in PHP 7.0

Posted Dec 8, 2015 21:00 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (3 responses)

Wordpress.com was completely rewritten in Node.js as of a month ago.

What's coming in PHP 7.0

Posted Dec 10, 2015 11:10 UTC (Thu) by thumperward (guest, #34368) [Link]

No, it was not.

What's coming in PHP 7.0

Posted Dec 10, 2015 21:33 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

Even if it were, the zend benchmarks were talking about wordpress-the-codebase, not wordpress-the-website.

What's coming in PHP 7.0

Posted Feb 12, 2016 10:30 UTC (Fri) by alexwoehr (subscriber, #100148) [Link]

That was confusing to me as well. This is just wordpress.com, however, not wordpress.org. Wordpress is still PHP for the foreseeable future. They just rewrote one aspect of their system in Node to test the waters a bit. For certain, their investment in PHP is still huge, and they have no intention of abandoning that.