PHP 8.0 brings big updates. Here's what's new
Found on Tech Republic on Wednesday, 09 December 2020
Version 8.0 of PHP brings optimizations and enhancements to the language's type system, syntax, error handling and consistency.
PHP programmer and stitcher.io developer, Brent Roose, said in a blog post in January that the language had acquired "a reputation of messy codebases, inexperienced developers, insecure code, and [an] inconsistent core library" over the years, though added that it still offered "a great choice for web development if used wisely and correctly".
The core issues have always been an annoyance. Various functions doing bascially the same, unexpected behaviour, naming oddities and inconsistencies with haystack/needle orders are just a few of the problems.