On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Derick Rethans <tz@derickrethans.nl> wrote:

That's not true. On a 64-bit platform, you should run a 64-bit build
Windows. The problem on Windows was that its "long" is an int32_t, but
this all got resolved with PHP 7.0 (out for 2+ years), where it now uses
an int64_t-like type.

Should you use it? Yes, absolutely. But there are still LTS deployments that have this problem, and some common starter-kit local environments that are still bundled with 32-bit PHP. This pops up three or four times a year for me in the Drupal issue queues.