---
title: "PHP in 2022"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/php-in-2022-62y8rykkx
source_url: https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2022
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-01-14T07:02:26.378Z
updated: 2022-01-14T07:02:26.384Z
tags: ["general-programming", "php"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 81
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# PHP in 2022

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 81 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

PHP 8.1 was released just a little more than one month ago. New features include enums, promoted properties and fibers. PhpStorm is now supporting generics when writing code. The PHP Foundation is stepping down to make core development sustainable. There's also a new initiative backed by several big companies to make PHP sustainable.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@miguelsmuller** · 0 upvotes

> I was hopeless about php, but reading about async and servelles might put off a permanent migration.

**@papoel** · 0 upvotes

> Thanks 🙏

**@akacharava** · 0 upvotes

> I do think that these new features take PHP a few steps forward. however, the article does not mention the drawbacks the modern PHP has like strict typing.
>
> Depending on who you are asking, strict typing can be a good of bad thing. Imo this way of PHP programming should not be the industry standard, but an option for developers to have when they want this strict typing.

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