It would be interesting to see what PHP 7's speed can do for them.

Speed and lower memory utilization are great, but PHP7 really is just full of goodies:

* Scalar type declarations

* Return type declarations

* null coalescing operator (the real MVP)

* spaceship operator

* introduced Throwable, big improvement to error handling

* removed PHP4 style constructors

* removed the old mysql extension

Most modern PHP codebases should be able to upgrade from PHP5.6 to PHP7 seamlessly

> * null coalescing operator (the real MVP)

I'm glad someone appreciates it that much! Since helping introduce it, I haven't found as much use for it as I expected.

25 uses in my current codebase vs 5 for spaceship

It's not so much about the count though, but the beauty of it:

$id = trim($options[$longCamelCaseID]['abcdefg'] ?? "");

A real godsend

I would jump into community education and helping find opportunities.

https://www.codecademy.com and http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp can get you started out.

Honestly, my group uses Discord (http://discordapp.com) now. We love it. It replaces IRC and Teamspeak for us. Plus, I can get a user on the service in 5 seconds just by sending a link to them.

It is mostly used for gaming, but coding with it is just as great. There are a lot of public servers also for all sorts of things. (http://discord.me/servers).

The voice is what we love it for, chat is awesome during the day when some of us are not able to talk over voice.

React moved to Discord after being kicked off of Slack for having too large a channel. The Discord folks welcomed them in as a supported use case.

If your biggest concern with Slack is the invite-by-email hack, try Discord.

I've been playing around with Discord, but it seems like it lacks search and a proper API. I'm looking forward to its potential though!

It's sad when a kid builds something fun with Arduino and his own teachers are not smart enough to understand their smart student that is trying to learn on his own.

Probably not, he couldn't code.