The PHP 7 Revolution: Return Types and Removed Artifacts

Yes, and so are they. The only reason they don’t upgrade as quickly as they could do is because of unnecessary and frivolous BC breaks. If you look at http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all you will see the following for PHP usage:

  • 19.5% of sites are still on version 5.2
  • 45.5% of sites are still on version 5.3

That means that 65% of PHP users are at least 3 releases behind. Is this an issue or not? And what causing this situation? Why, breaks in BC of course.