2011/5/10 Ferenc Kovacs <in...@tyrael.hu>:

Well, there is the impact, but seriously, do that many people will use it in production? I certainly will not, but on the DEV and on my local development machine it will be enabled period.

The thing here is that there seems to be no movement at all. As I remember, there just has to be work done to write the grammar parser in Lemon in a such way, that it is fast enough and would have range for improvements. Right now it seems that no one is even trying.

Yep, bad suggestion from my side :)

It was more like an example of abandoned projects witch stay on RFC page for long time and make an impression that it will be dealt with. Just move it to "Not accepted/Abbandoned" category then.

Indeed it is. But at least the param type hinting should be finished, cause it's all ready half there.

Yes, it is the problem. And usually the userland developer voices are just overflown by other people - core devs and people who invest in developing their own stuff. Maybe core devs could somehow highlight the things that userland developers are writing?

That was the intent of my e-mail in the first place - to show that there is a ton of stuff that is in questionable state, half done or most of the problems solved and it just needs some love to become production ready. There has to be a re-focus for some time. PHP 5.2-5.3 where a good example of cleaning up, speeding up and very good feature development - anonymous functions for example are just freaking awesome stuff.

It is a good idea to look at all the big stuff that is just begging to be fixed/added/done - Unicode is really the pain in the ass (especially for me, because I have to work with multi-language websites and systems - Russian, Latvian, English, Arabic and other). There just has to be some sort of core developer decision to stop actively developing new features and just clean up the backlog. Community probably will follow with that too.