The Latest PHP 7 - What's New in PHP 7.4
Explore the latest features and improvements in PHP 7.4 through this comprehensive conference talk from PHP UK 2020. Dive into the strengthened type system with typed properties, co- and contra-variance of methods, and changes to operator precedence. Learn about new functionalities like preloading classes, foreign function interface, and custom object serialization mechanisms. Discover updates on reflection for references, weak references, short arrow functions, and numeric literal separators. Understand the deprecation of curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets, as well as PostgreSQL escape characters. Gain valuable insights into the evolution of PHP and how these enhancements can improve your development workflow.