PHP doesn't suck (anymore)

PHP in 2023 is very different than PHP in 2012. Let's run through some of the changes!

00:00 Intro
01:16 Traits
01:34 Short array syntax
01:47 Array destructuring
02:05 Variadic functions
02:12 Spread and splat
02:34 Generators
02:49 Anonymous classes
03:06 Trailing commas in function calls
03:26 Arrow functions
03:48 Null coalescing and null coalescing assignment
04:11 Null chaining operator
04:36 Named arguments
04:47 Attributes (annotations)
05:05 Non-capturing catch
05:28 Sensitive parameter attribute
05:43 Match statements
06:12 Weak maps
06:28 Enums
07:04 Typehints
07:19 Types, types, and more types
09:27 Readonly properties and classes
09:47 Addressing the speed of PHP

[kman]

Sorry man. If you liked Looper, I can't trust your ability to determine what sucks

[salimibrohimi]

How is it possible? Ten minutes flew so fast.
You rock, man. Keep it up!

[ariell]

Most people that say "PHP sucks" have never used PHP and started coding with javascript with React

[tranquility]

I started my career with PHP, 5 years ago and even if I now work primarily in Go, I still keep up with all the new features. It's still massively useful to me for small websites and other minor projects.

[hovhadovah]

I sometimes wish I hadn't missed out on PHP when it was popular. I got into web dev with React around 4 years ago. It sometimes feels like the Node ecosystem is finding increasingly convoluted ways of reinventing PHP.

[KayB]

I actually got my first job in PHP 10 years ago and since then jumped around using, JS, GO, Python, C# and today I work for a company who uses PHP. Its definitely not dead.

[BenHolmen]

"when have you personally needed 50, 000 requests per second? how many users do you have?" 💀

[lachezarraychev]

I had no idea PHP evolved so much. All of the things I wish it had when I stopped using it actually are implemented now. Awesome vid!

[jhdk]

Great video! It's been quite some years since I worked with PHP, happy to see it has adapted a lot of the features, I enjoy in other languages (C# and Typescript). Keep up the good work

[Naton]

Php with enums, union types, and match was what got me through the pain of -> . Else I would've resigned, laravel or not

[muhamadsarhad]

I am an SE student for this fall semester we use PHP in one of our courses. this video was a relief. honestly, I have only heard bad things about PHP and I was worried. thanks for the video.

[marko]

Loved the video! The flow of it was purely amazing and entertaining! I am using PHP professionally and yet most of these went under my radar.

[BrunoSantos-ekug]

from someone who went from c# to php, and saw all those changes from php 5 to 7 and now 8, this language is gathering its fast application on market alongside with the goods that comes with statically typed languages. Absolutely amazing work from the PHP team!

[redilinxa]

Thank you for continuously promoting PHP. From a fellow PHP developer.

[HeyRyanHaskell]

"I'm no longer an accountant, and PHP no longer sucks" 😂💖

[Bennigames]

Small correction to your array destructuring segment: No, you didn't have to manually declare seperate variables and then access by index. Long before that was a feature, PHP shipped with the list() function which does essentially the same thing only slightly more verbose

[chewcodes]

I used PHP for work (specifically with Laravel), and I was introduced to 7.4, but when I saw what 8.0 and 8.1 had, I knew PHP was a competitor. I would still likely not choose it, but it's definitely on par with modern languages in my opinion. Thanks for making this!

[FaeRhanX]

For huge number of requests you can use the Swoole extension where you get a Node-like webserver continuesly running and processing requests with an event loop. At one place I even had to introduce sleeps in the microsecond range as the database was not fast enough to keep up with changed data.

[evilscientist]

Dude, I feel like I am quite on the edge using PHP8.1 and stuff for quite a long time but even I learned something thats cool AND useful to me (usually it's just cool). Great video!

[kurshadqaya]

Sweet.
You recapped very well.
Although I was aware of almost all of them, I could never recap this way.
Good for you!