Motivation—Why PHP 8
Learn about how using PHP 8 is beneficial and why we should adopt the new release in our projects.
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PHP 8 represents the culmination of the PHP core development team’s work to maximize efficiency in the core language. Your application code will immediately see a boost in speed as well as a smaller memory footprint just by migrating to PHP 8. Further, in PHP 8, developers notice that a tremendous effort has gone into normalizing syntax and language usage. In short, programming in PHP 8 is a joy to developers who appreciate adherence to good coding practices.
What about PHP?
However, this inevitably leads to the question: where does the PHP language go from here? PHP 8 provides the answer to this question as well, in the form of the Just-In-Time compiler and support for fibers. The latter forms the foundation of asynchronous programming and has been announced for PHP 8.1. PHP 8 gives you a glimpse of the language’s future, which is looking extremely bright!
Why should I learn PHP 8?
If you put all this together, it becomes clear that understanding and mastering the new features and stricter coding practices implemented in PHP 8 is vital to those who wish to pursue a serious career as a PHP developer.