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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:06:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 8 release announcement page on php.net
From: matthewmatthew@gmail.com (Matthew Brown)

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W/r/t the goals:

=E2=80=93 Promote the release of PHP 8 to the PHP developers
> =E2=80=93 Promote PHP as a modern language, as well as the PHP 8 release,=
 to the
> general tech audience


The page's design does a *great* job of promoting PHP 8 to existing PHP
developers, but a general tech audience skeptical of PHP's modern-day
relevance is unlikely to be swayed by improvements to WordPress
performance. I'm not sure that PHP's reputation with non-PHP developers can
be improved by a splash page.

As far as php.net can help with PHP's reputation, I think a brief homepage
intro that showcased some modern-looking PHP code would be great (e.g.
typescriptlang.org, golang.org). The docs design could also be
slightly tweaked to make everything seem newer, while still keeping the
(very good) content basically the same.

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