Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:106496 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 59442 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2019 18:34:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) (76.75.200.58) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2019 18:34:57 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <5d4ca16b.1c69fb81.bcb4a.9e51SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <5d4cb5da.1c69fb81.5608d.7c4bSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 17:02:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 94.4.34.143 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bringing Peace to the Galaxy From: markyr@gmail.com (Mark Randall) Message-ID: On 09/08/2019 08:15, Zeev Suraski wrote: > You seem to believe that C++ is inherently superior to C. And it's > entirely within your right. > However, there are projects - to this date - that prefer C to C++ for a > variety of reasons. PHP is one of them, and others include the Linux > kernel, redis, nginx, and actually - the vast majority of the fundamental > pieces of OS infrastructure our planet runs on. This isn't just for > historical reasons - it has to do with a variety of reasons, and the > simplicity of C is one of them. I just wanted to amend a bit of present day context, as it happens, security management at Microsoft is currently giving serious consideration to moving away from C / C++ and on to memory safe languages because of the benefits they bring. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/18/microsoft_rust_security/