The GAMECHANGING features of PHP 8!

I'm excited about PHP 8! In this video we explore 10 of the most EXCITING new features in this NEW version of PHP!

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[vitiok]

As a PHP developer I actually feel your excitement

[nt]

Php 8 is not php 3 or 4. It's much better now.

[WolfgangsChannel]

Obligatory "PHP bad" comment

[andrewfong]

When I want to write a simple script but don’t want to use either Bash or Node, PHP is my best friend

[heckyes]

I also love PHP. There still hasn't been a problem I've encountered yet that didn't seem almost immediately and easily solvable using PHP.

[packtrouble]

Php was the language that taught me the fundamentals of programming. It helped me conceptualize code. I personally have moved on from it but, php will have a special place in my heart.

[ojsojs]

The nice thing about PHP is the whole shared-nothing request container architecture.

In each request you have a clean state with now left overs and some guarantee that you are not piling up memory leaks over requests. This allows easy scaling. Since recent additions like preloading to the engine the performance cost of recreating the world each time is also heavily reduced.

This greatly matches the HTTP model and makes PHP the true web language for the server side.

Fast prototyping. You can spit out a proof of concept in PHP faster than you can boilerplate Hello World in some other languages. I can’t upload a go file and have it just run. I have to compile it, upload it, and run it. PHP is plug and play. Upload a file and done.

[noferblatz]

I'm with you. I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP code. My second language was C, and PHP is almost a copy of C (e.g. in library functions). PHP has had some misfeatures, like some of the ones you mentioned. But it's dead easy to code in. People who don't like PHP either don't know what they're talking about, or they're snobs. My gosh, the faults in C are part of the reason for all the languages which derive from it, like C++, C#, Objective C, Go, etc. Every language has shortcomings.

[username]

Causing issues with legacy code is a good thing in the case in my opinion. It allows you to see bugs that were previously getting skipped over.

[sakurajin_noa]

I want to have named arguments in C++. Named arguments is a feature I learned to love while coding in C# and would simplify a lot of code.

[NoStLinuxGaming]

As a fellow web developer I must say I love PHP. Yes, it definitely has its flaws, but what programming language doesn't?
I'm very excited about the changes introduced in PHP 8.

[marcello]

6:47 .. all java developers: why does he use public scope?

[aarongarza]

PhP is king for freelance web development.

[ffkkinos]

pattern matching is awesome! Is super handy when writing rust, nice to have that on php as well

[pinkdiscomosh]

Awesome! The language has come so far and is not the same PHP of the past. I don't write PHP on the daily anymore, but I still love the language and these new features coming to PHP8 are super exciting. They are the legit reasons why I love other languages like Python, Dart and Javascript. I've seriously considered using PHP for person project again. I just haven't. But these new features may push me back to it. Thanks for the video.

[henrymach]

The real problem with PHP is that is looks like it was made by a bunch of people that never talked to each other. Apart from that, it's ok

Also it's funny how all languages are converging to having types now

[jecajSudbine]

There's nothing wrong with PHP. You can write PHP OOP like C#/Java and
you can write it functionaly like JS. And it's not hard to learn.
Wish it have types like in C though.

All this negative marketing is probably coming from backend competition
(C#, Java, JS, ...)

Currently, I'm messing with Symfony and its just all nice and well structured.

[mixk]

Any thoughts on Godot?
I'm personally cheering for the devs to implement Vulkan.

[Dubmaster]

My only issue so far with PHP is syntax errors, but then again I do that with every language I work with.

[MrSneWs]

Nice to see PHP getting better, not used it in at least 10 years or so, so this was a nice one for sure... hint for future, always enable warnings as errors, at least that was the way to do it yesteryears :)