If Hell hasn’t formally frozen over, there’s a definite chill in the air.
All that’s missing now is news that Mike Wallner’s totally fabulous, essential-in-today’s-world freakin’ awesome HTTP extension is getting rolled into PHP 6.
Well, here’s hoping. They say that Things happen in threes. There couldn’t be a much better trio of announcements than that.

JSON Decoding in PHP 5.2.1 is Broken
As of PHP 5.2.1, json_decode() no longer follows the published standards for JSON-encoded texts.
Why not? For no reason other than the convenience of those ignorant of JSON standards.
Prior to PHP 5.2.1, this:
var_dump(json_decode(‘true’));

resulted in:
NULL
As of PHP 5.2.1, it results in:
bool(true)
Nice and handy, perhaps … but a blatant violation of JSON […]

My post yesterday struck a chord that many others were also hearing, as Andrei’s post and the comments that followed it indicate.
Potential developers of new frameworks, take note: Your announcement will be followed by wholesale eyeball-rolling.
Stephan and the Stubbles folks feel that my reaction and Andrei’s are somehow knee-jerk, and that if we really looked […]