Hello internals! I’d like to take a moment to reflect what will happen tomorrow with all of you and how that is important to me and I’d say, to everyone: PHP 8.0.0 is going to be released, YES!
PHP 8.0 was the first PHP version that I had the opportunity, pleasure and time to follow its development from beginning to end. Not only that, I had the honour to be voted as one of its Release Managers. I first heard of PHP a couple of years ago, and being able to help release its new major version this year is, by far, one of the most honourable things that ever happened to me. I won’t spend time talking about how much stuff we have changed and introduced in PHP 8.0, you can go ahead and Google for talks, blogs, documents and much more about it. Let’s get that and spread the word outside of our community, everyone needs to know how great PHP 8.0 is! I won’t thank him, her or anyone in particular, I will thank everyone and anyone that helped with this new version of PHP. Old schools, newbies, Africans, Europeans, Americans, and of course our Asian community. Do we have someone from Oceania or Antarctica that have contributed to PHP? I think so, PHP is from everyone to anyone. Even known folks from PHP tools, libraries and frameworks helped on this version, and it was beautiful to see this bridge being built. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend tomorrow’s release party, as I’ll be (literally) flying to Brazil. I wish all the best of luck to Sara and everyone else that will be releasing it. That’s all folks, tomorrow a new era of PHP starts and I can’t wait to see what the future reserves for us! Stay safe, stay home, wear a mask once you go out, and let’s finish 2020 on a high! . Gabriel Caruso
