This is a small note about the new buzz word in the PHP world : 'HipHop'. After reading the original facebook post about 'HipHop' and the 'devil' eval()
function, I start thinking about possible issues with the symfony framework.
If the eval
function is not compatible with HipHop, I guess other features are not HipHop friendly
Now, these features are evils but there are used in some part of symfony's dependencies : symfony core lib, sfForm, Doctrine and Propel.
I will be please to see how symfony and co will deal with this new PHP compiler. If the performance are really good and free as a beer, HipHop can create new and interesting challenge for popular frameworks.
But for now, symfony will not play HipHop when the tool will be release :(