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This isn't "the new PHP", and I hope it is amended. Facebook making their own runtime by no means makes it newer than the official version produced by the PHP contributors/zend team until (if ever) it makes it into the core.

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Don't read it so literally. They're just saying it's the newest PHP tech at Heroku. New as in "hip", "latest", "trendy", etc..

In other words, a more charitable parsing would be "the new (PHP on Heroku)" instead of "(the new PHP) on Heroku".

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