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PHP 8.1 will have Fibers 🚀🎉🐘. Fibers bring foundations for asynchronous programming with PHP. #phpthanks to @kelunik and @_trowski For their amazing on the RFC. Deailed: php.watch/versions/8.1/fiber… Implementation: github.com/amphp/ext-fiber
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🐞 @xdebug 3 was released a couple of weeks ago. @derickr did a great job by providing us: * youtube videos * upgrade path * updated docs #PHP #XDEBUG I wrote a summary on all of this. A tread! 🧵👇
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We often take finished work by other productive people for granted. But we know every contribution requires work, patience and time. This is Superman of PHP ↓ Thank you @nikita_ppv 🙇 for your ongoing work on every version of @php_net and powerful, simple tools🎖❤️️amazing!
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An in-depth article about PHP JIT, various benchmarks on web frameworks, computational functions, a comparison with other languages, and how JIT works #php #php8 @official_php php.watch/articles/jit-in-de…
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Replying to @markusstaab
Joys of copy-paste. Thanks a lot for this @markusstaab, I just updated the post.
Thank you so much for helping out with PHP 8 ♥️🐘.
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Replying to @official_php
PHP 8 Thanks 🐘♥️🐘♥️ 🐘♥️🐘♥️ 🐘♥️🐘♥️ 🐘♥️🐘♥️ php.watch/articles/php80-pos…
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A performance comparison between @xdebug version 2 and 3: php.watch/articles/xdebug2-v… Thanks to @derickr for the amazing improvements in Xdebug 3.
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Free private composer repositories with @gitlab's new Composer support in Package Repositories. php.watch/articles/composer-…
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Replying to @PHPRFCBot
php.watch/versions/8.0/match… I covered the syntax and an in-depth comparison against switch.
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Just try it with composer self-update --snapshot. There's an upgrade guide: github.com/composer/composer… There's also an article from @phpwch php.watch/articles/composer-… And podcast: phptownhall.com/episode-74-c…
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For the majority of WordPress target audience, it doesn't matter. WordPress developers are great at their craft, they serve their target audience well enough to have 30% of the whole web running WordPress.