PHP 5.3 is around the corner, it’s got a bunch of handy new features. Yet, why am I not excited?
PHP users seem to have a horrible horrible habit of not upgrading quickly (if at all). Looking at recent stats it seems that well over half still seem to be using PHP 4 despite its end of life support at the end of the year. Not to mention yesterday it was announced it would be no longer receiving any security updates! PHP 4.4.9 only seen 5 minor changes to the code and that goes to show how dead its development really [...]