Summary
Looking back on the release of PHP 5 and its support to OOP programming, we can see the enormous positive impact it had on the PHP ecosystem. A large number of frameworks and libraries have sprawled out, offering enterprise level solutions to web application development.
The release of PHP 7 is likely to be another leap forward for the PHP ecosystem. Though none of the new features are revolutionary as such, as they can be found in other programming languages from years ago, they impact PHP greatly. We are yet to see how its new features will reshape existing and future frameworks and the way we write applications.
The introduction of more advanced errors to exceptions handling, scalar type hints, and function return type hints will surely ...
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