A senior Google database expert loves the JIT compiler, but others doubt its worth and say it could be hard to maintain.

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The PHP team has unanimously voted to integrate the Libsodium library in the PHP core, and by doing so, becoming the first programming language to support a modern cryptography library by default. The ...