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Discussion on: Why do you love Ruby, actually? An ode.

 
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Sylwia Vargas

Oh, interesting — what are other positive developments in PHP? Or, is there a blogger I could refer to to catch up on PHP news? :)

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leob

Well, performance is MUCH better than it used to be, PHP 7 and 8 made big strides in performance ... one other remarkable change is the move of PHP towards typing - type declarations/type checking.

Blogs, well of course there are many, we talked about Spatie, so here you go: spatie.be/blog

What's new in PHP 8:

stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-8

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Sylwia Vargas

Cool, now I’m excited! I’ll give it a try and report back ✨ thank you!

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leob

Haha okay, yes you should be!

Laravel is a great framework with a lively community & a vibrant ecosystem, they're innovating a lot - for example, recently I came across a version that runs "serverless" on AWS Lambda (vapor.laravel.com), check it out if you're into that kind of stuff.

And remember the name Taylor Otwell, he's the creator (twitter.com/taylorotwell), you'll see him mentioned quite often.