PHPNG Dramatic Speedup Features Coming in PHP 6 Release
Some highlights:
- The plot to kill Apache mod_php SAPI
- Type hinting for everything (function arguments, function return values, and variables)
- Asynchronous programming (using the new await keyword)
- Production ready standalone web server
- Multi-thread safe
wow!
Yup. Quite a few major and important changes. This is not the time to jump of the PHP bandwagon. :)