New in PHP 8
This is pretty awesome, I&#x27;ve been migrating from C# and NodeJS back to PHP and it&#x27;s awesome. Want to know why?<p>- Everything is either built-in or can be enabled from an OFFICIAL repository (like functions for bc,xml,etc). No more trusting sketchy npm packages or having to pull in a ton of dependencies that might stop working some day.<p>- It&#x27;s so fast and elegant to consume a (SOAP or REST) webservice. Visual Studio insists on creating tons of files,  obscure web.config settings and other misc. stuff. PHP handles this in a couple of lines.<p>- Development feels natural, every file can be a single class if you want and there are plenty of highly matured frameworks available.<p>I estimate I&#x27;ve slashed development time in half compared to C#, less bugs and less security issues (verified through two independent code auditors). Even large projects are easier to work on in PHP compared to C#