Some clarification here about PHP versioning: the next minor version of will be PHP 5.6, which is still under development and has not yet been released. What is referred to as PHP 5.7 here is phpng, a proposed next major version of PHP. There's a lot of confusion about version naming of PHP, so it would be great if the author and HN could fix the title of this post (i.e. s/PHP 5.7/phpng/) as soon as possible to prevent spreading any further misinformation.
Yes, I found this out after I submitted the link. It's a little frustrating that someone (the blog post author) who is so interested and seemingly involved in this wasn't aware of this fact.
