Performance gains right out of the box, so for Wordpress & Joomla this is a bonus and because of some of these great improvements (speed, performance) who knows maybe shared hosts will be adopting it sooner since it will help with their environments.
+1/vote for this if you like it, get the team working on this ASAP. Joomla is already working on or has worked on PHP 7 for their roadmap and the 3.5+ series from what I saw on their site and documentation.
Let's get PHP 7 compatibility rolled out!
Readings:
http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.php
https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7
https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/getting-ready-for-php-7/
+1/vote for this if you like it, get the team working on this ASAP. Joomla is already working on or has worked on PHP 7 for their roadmap and the 3.5+ series from what I saw on their site and documentation.
Let's get PHP 7 compatibility rolled out!
Readings:
http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.php
https://blog.engineyard.com/2015/what-to-expect-php-7
https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/getting-ready-for-php-7/