[Ebook] Brent Roose - Front Line PHP Building modern applications with PHP 8

PHP has changed the world. More than 5 million developers are now using this language worldwide to create a variety of applications. But the world is changing PHP as well. Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of the language, once noted that a good solution should steal/borrow existing technology. And this is true. PHP takes the best ideas from other ecosystems and improves on them.

It's been 5 years since the release of PHP 7.0. In this time, as the community has matured and needed new features, the language team has been listening to the community and implementing the features. This is what has led PHP to introduce stricter typing, more concise syntax, static analyzers, etc.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. - Leon C. Megginson’s interpretation of Darwin’s ideas is an insight that guides PHP year after year.