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The shade cast on Wordpress at the end is the article is a little disappointing. Ok, they’re behind on versions but for many years there was not much progress in PHP. Now PHP is flying and dependent projects are not keeping up. What can the PHP team do to help facilitate?

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The fact that WordPress doesn't run on PHP 8.x is honestly the least of WordPress' problems.

There are MANY reasons to cast shade on WordPress, it's an absolute pile of garbage from top to bottom.

I recently developed a WordPress plugin as a personal project for my blog and it just puts in light how bad this software is, from non-existant documentation (on 10 years old functions?) to practices that were already not recommended in PHP 5.

WordPress as a product is great, but WordPress as a technological piece is absolute garbage, made by grossly incompetent developers.

It's not the PHP internals team's responsibility to prop up a private company (Automattic, who owns WordPress) who are lagging behind on maintaining their product and ecosystem. They're already strapped for resources as it is.

Maybe not, but Wordpress is arguably one of the main applications that has kept PHP relevant over the years. They could reach out a hand.

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