{"id":42631,"date":"2019-05-20T06:52:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T04:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=42631"},"modified":"2019-05-20T06:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T04:52:36","slug":"php-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/20\/php-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Here’s a nice overview of “PHP in 2019<\/a>” for those who are still trying to avoid the language because of some preconceived or outdated reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TL;DR<\/strong>
* PHP is actively developed with a new release each year
* Performance since the PHP 5 era has doubled, if not tripled
* There’s a extremely active eco system of frameworks, packages and platforms
* PHP has had lots of new features added to it over the past few years, and the language keeps evolving
* Tooling like static analysers has matured over the past years, and only keeps growing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And here are some of the recent features that have made it into the language:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of new features in PHP:
* Short closures<\/a>
* Null coalescing operator<\/a>
* Traits<\/a>
* Typed properties<\/a>
* Spread operator<\/a>
* JIT compiler<\/a>
* FFI<\/a>
* Anonymous classes<\/a>
* Return type declarations<\/a>
* Contemporary cryptography<\/a>
* Generators<\/a>
* Lots more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a nice overview of “PHP in 2019” for those who are still trying to avoid the language because of some preconceived or outdated reasons. TL;DR* PHP is actively developed with a new release each year* Performance since the PHP 5 era has doubled, if not tripled* There’s a extremely active eco system of frameworks, … Continue reading PHP in 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"PHP in 2019 #WebDev #PHP","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[38,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-42631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-php","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t