PHP enters soon into Release Candidate hammering

 Hi folks,

Hopefully you re still hanging there wherever you are, I see still the number of readers remain more or less the same compared to the usual :-)

For all C++ developers, pros and/or enthusiasts, I would recommend reading this blog post about C++20 approval from Herb Sutter which comes from a long way and open source compilers have been supported early on the features, giving time to start to get used to them (modules, constexpr extended very much so (IMO), co-routines, ...). Good, news considering the situation ; and the next step, C++23, is still on track for sometime in 2021 which is pretty important one about last possible changes proposals.

In my side, I've been still on Haiku pretty much, for instance PHP 8 will enter soon into the RC time, before the end of this month hopefully, I have already pushed enough code to make it workable in this platform, I usually use the already packaged pcre2 package rather than the version shipped with the php regex extension which does not build because of the JIT (build fixed since, but not released yet and even less ported to the pcre2 repository). A lot of changes even tough sadly couple of interesting ones will have to be done after (8.1 or future 9.0) ... nevertheless you PHP developers I invite you to read the UPGRADING note to migrate from the 7.x versions (e.g. errors thrown as exceptions).

I took another bite at Barony to port it to Haiku. Due to its low usage of platform specificities, it had been pretty straightforward. However, a change of license had become necessary, but seems all devs/contributors have agreed to. Other than that, I did also some NetBSD related contributions here and there (radare2, rpmalloc). I appreciate this os more than in the past, I appreciate what it becomes with the time goes. At last, a bit for Illumos based oses, still my liking for underdogs talking :-)

Wish you well, see you the next time ;-)