language features

The PHP development team is proud to announce the 4th release candidate of PHP 5.4. PHP 5.4 includes new language features and removes several legacy (deprecated) behaviours.

Windows binaries can be downloaded from the Windows QA site. THIS IS A RELEASE CANDIDATE - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!.

This is the 4th release candidate. The release candidate phase is intended as a period of bug fixing prior to the stable release.

No new features should be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0.

The PHP.net site has a new announcement about the latest version of the language in the PHP 5.4.x series - beta 2 has been released for testing.

A while back we learned about Google's thoughts on Javascript.

Well, it seems Google's Dart Language is now live.

Dart is a new class-based programming language for creating structured web applications.

Developed with the goals of simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, the Dart language combines powerful new language features with familiar language constructs into a clear, readable syntax.

On the PHP.net site today there's an announcement about the release of the PHP 5.4 alpha1, the first version of the upcoming 5.4 release.

This month Hans Zaunere and Nate Abele will give us a look at the new features in PHP 5.3 and how they’re used in production today.

Specifically these NYPHP regulars will cover three new major language features: namespaces, late static binding, and closures.

RSVP for the meeting at IBM in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday July [...]

On PHPFreaks.com they have a new "top ten" list of signs to look out for to tell if you're dealing with crappy software or not.

The latest entry has Joe Armstrong discussing Erlang in the ongoing series of interviews with PL designers (The A-Z of Programming Languages).

Two related things caught my eye. The first is the obvious truism about language features: