5 Reasons to Use PHP 8: New Syntax Features

Are you still on PHP 7.x? Let me convince you to upgrade, maybe you will like those syntax “treats” from PHP 8.0.

PHP Version Statistics: https://packagist.org/php-statistics
PHP Official Supported versions: https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php

PHP 8 Examples from the video:
– Match example: https://twitter.com/freekmurze/status/1451905555182850048
– Null safe operator: https://twitter.com/freekmurze/status/1452598536101580817
– Null safe operator example 2: https://php.watch/versions/8.0/null-safe-operator
– Named parameters: https://twitter.com/freekmurze/status/1450781816957374468
– Constructor property promotion: https://twitter.com/freekmurze/status/1334077673740656651
– Union types: https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8#union-types-rfc

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