Despite the fact that there was never an official release of PHP 6, it was going to be a real thing with a lot of great improvements to the engine and language. But why was this version of PHP never released? We talk with some previous and current interna

What was the plan for PHP 6?

• PHP 6 was supposed to add native unicode support to PHP.
• This represented a big change and many features were blocked from being added to the PHP 5.x codebase because unicode support had to be added first.
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