Tag: Alpha

The first alpha version of PHP 8.5 has just been released, and I must confess it has me more excited than recent versions. It’s not just for the technical improvements (which are many), but because PHP 8.5 introduces features that will change the way we write code.

And when I say “change,” I mean the kind of changes that, once you use them, you can’t go back. Like when the null coalescing operator (??) appeared in PHP 7, or arrow functions in PHP 7.4.