- Improved performance (can short circuit/not continue when done)
- Backwards compatible because added interfaces
- Now generating the implementation for easier updates
PHP 8 Update
- nullsafe operator (?->)
- Remove (real) cast
- Named arguments
- Remove (unset) cast
- Remove {} access
- match expression
- Union types in type hints and static typehint
- Block catch without variable
- Trailing comma in parameter lists
- throw can be used as an expression
- Concatenation precedence
- Declaring properties in the constructor
- Attributes
- Names in the namespace are treated as a single token
- Trailing comma in closure use list
- Check that ::class on object works
- Deferencable changes and arbitrary expressions in new/instanceof
