PHP just got a massive update!

3 min readNov 26, 2021

Welcome back! PHP is a very popular programming language that’s used heavily for web development, if you’re new to this language, check out the link below to learn more about it:

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.1.0. This release marks the latest minor release…

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Today, PHP just got another major update, this time it’s PHP 8.1, if you want to check out its release log, here is a link to it:

PHP 8.1 Released

Symfony Demo App request time 25 consecutive runs, 250 requests (sec) (less is better) 23.0% Symfony Demo speedup 3.5%…

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So, let’s talk about some of my favorite updates to this programming language!

First-Class Callable Syntax

PHP 8.1 now brings the ability of getting a reference of any function! this is the process of doing so: