On: Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster

[coldtea]

That's not how it normally works with those kinds of re-implementations.

Heck, Python 3 hasn't even replaced Python 2 -- and people will dump PHP for Hack? A language which doesn't even have a community at the moment, it's 99% Facebook people.

[kolev → coldtea]

Also, if we have to use Python as an example, then PyPy was a better analogy than Python 3.

[coldtea → kolev]

Only I compared PHP to Hack above. PyPy would be a better analogy to HHVM-PHP.

[kolev → coldtea]

Python 3 is a different story! As you mention below outliers, let's not use them, please! GNU/Linux OS does not depend on PHP like it depends on Python.