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In this weeks show we are very lucky to have Joe Watkins on again to discuss all things PHP 7.\nStarting off with the decisions behind calling the next release 7, we delve into the reasons for 6 being abandoned.\nMoving on from this we look into what PHP 7 currently has scheduled to offer, including the PHPNG patch, an AST and maybe Joe\u2019s own Unicode String class.\nWe then discuss how a PHP script is internally lexed, parsed/compiled and cached, - including how a JIT would speed up certain use-cases.\nFinally we touch upon the much requested String type hinting and how a solution similar to Java\u2019s could be implemented with minimal hassle.