DPC2020: What's new in PHP 7.4, and coming up in PHP 8 - Derick Rethans
During this presentation, we are going to look at the new features that were introduced in PHP 7.4.
Join me to have a look at how the type system is strengthened with typed properties and co- and contra-variance of methods, what changes to operator precedence are, and which new features, such as pre-loading classes, are going to be introduced.
At the end you will have a good understand about all the new and exciting features that are going to be part of the recent PHP 7.4 release.
After we have looked at what you can already use, we'll have a preview of PHP 8, with its JIT, Union Types and other new features.
What you'll learn from this talk:
What the new features in PHP 7.4 are
What (possible) features are upcoming in PHP 8
What the direction of PHP's language developments are
This talk was given at the Dutch PHP Conference in 2020, organised and hosted by Ibuildings. Visit https://phpconference.nl or https://ibuildings.nl for more information.k
