Thanks for the information! It’s good to finally have a true discussion of the new version, and I’m glad to hear you’re still working on it and committed to open source. Like I said in another thread, I’d much prefer to have V8 done properly than quickly.
I have three questions.
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Are you planning to release 8.0 as a “preproduction” version for development, or is 8.0 going to be production-grade and ready for implementation/upgrading?
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You said V8 would, at first, use V7’s core to do the heavy lifting. Should we expect this to mean an additional performance hit until V7 can be left completely?
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Since this is a significant change, even with commitment to backwards compatibility V8 probably can’t support all customizations that were possible for V7, at least not without changing the customization’s codebase. What do you expect to be the first non-supported V7 feats, ie. what kinds of customizations must be upgraded most urgently?