If you’re a computer nerd like myself then you’ll be excited to hear that PHP 7 is currently in development. Given that I created both the front and back ends of my site, I can’t wait to implement these new features:
- New slogan – “We’re bringing the back end to the front, and the front end to the back, and bringing both of those back to the back and front respectively!”
- “What if” control flow, to encourage the website to exercise its critical thinking skills.
- Infinite loops are now known as indefinite loops, as the idea that a loop could go on infinitely is highly implausible, seeing as how our sun will become a red giant within 5 million years, expanding to the point where the earth will be enveloped in fiery death, and that can be harmful to computer systems.
- Free debugging on Fridays.
- More global variables and functions that you’ll never use because your site is already built, dammit!
- Better power balance for the sorcerer class.
- Improved support for that CMS your cousin won’t shut up about.
- More inherent disdain for anyone who uses .NET languages.
- A cartoon mascot, finally.
- An easier way to connect MySQL to the back of your spinal column, for optimal integration.
- Something to do with the Cloud, just so we can use that buzzword.
- Better garbage collecting, as it will be powering the back end of Waste Management’s website.
- Total portability, via a convenient set of 12 3.5″ floppy disks.
- Sloths.
- A new, convenient backdoor, allowing pain-free monitoring of your activity by the NSA.
- Variables that get set in your mind!
- 64bit dual-flop processor ports with two external load-balanced ROM downloaders.
- A reminder to brush your teeth, should you be coding around bedtime.
- A use of gender-neutral pronouns in all documentation, so as to not scare young girls away from learning how to do mindless, repetitive work as a cubicle-dwelling code monkey.
- A bigger number after its name.