Interview to Rasmus Lerdorf from Etsy, Creator of PHP
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Creator of PHP describes 20 years of growth from a personal tool into the web’s dominant language, cites PHP 7 focuses on massive performance improvements and the addition of limited typing to support complex apps, credits composer for picking framework pieces and a healthier ecosystem, notes pthreads works for CLI while web uses job queues like Gearman or multi-curl for concurrency, expects further perf iteration and a real-world JIT research path (mentions Dmitri’s JIT as a starting point).
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