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PHP 8.0: Alpha 1 released

zooboole

Published By zooboole

Well, while others are using some of their time to hate, real developers continue to fix and improve. It's the custom in the software development ecosystem. You need to understand that no code wears out, It's eternal. but the man is not. That's why we need to decide well, focus, and be consistent in our decisions.

As a PHP developer for the past ten years, I know how it changed my life and that of millions of others out there. That's why we keep on maintaining, using, and improving it to make sure it always satisfies the current market needs. This makes PHP to always be modern, I mean, the king.

So, the big news today yesterday is that the long-awaited PHP 8.0 is finally available in Alpha 1 with the freshest new feature — JIT(Just In Time) compilation. This is one of the newest features that the version 8 ships. It's promising to be a game-changer in terms of performance. Among other features you can also expect to have a support for union types, a new static return type, attributes, str_contains(), str_starts_with, str_ends_with, and Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS).

Also, many more fixes have been applied to core features such as CURL, PDO, Date, FPM, GD, JSON, etc. And talking of JSON, the extension is now an integral part of PHP and cannot be disabled. This means you don't need to install the JSON extension manually after every installation of PHP like we use to do. It's particularly my favorite.

We can expect to have a final release by December this year. The next release, Alpha 2, is scheduled for Jul 09, 2020. Let's give it a try and have our own opinion.

Cover image credit to phalcon.io