PHP 8.2.0 RC1 available for testing

It's really good seeing PHP keep to a solid and reliable release schedule. With the creation of the PHP Foundation to ensure that there are actually developers getting paid to work on PHP I think the future for the PHP core is looking rather bright.

Been using it so far using a PPA with my own unreleased Python dialect that compiles to PHP. Gonna be a solid release.<p>Amazing to see so much evolution for PHP- autoloading and automatic file-based routing are such killer features for rapid development.<p>Fibers are going to be a gamechanger for performance once libraries start adopting it.

PHP is really cool, the reason I created an account here is cos someone was bashing PHP, so I had to troll him.<p>There is a but though, don&#x27;t make PHP your last language, broaden your horizon.

I got into programming websites with PHP at a time when everyone was yelling Node for everything, JavaScript frameworks for everything, SPAs for everything.<p>I absolutely agree they have their place... but I don&#x27;t have regrets. I&#x27;ll get into JS Frameworks, Node, and all of that later as it never, ever hurts to broaden experience, but I have no regrets with jumping into PHP first because the productivity level is fantastic when tied to a framework to avoid the footguns. PHP has footguns, some infamous, but so does any framework or language.