[hochchristoph]

To me it's amazing how many of these things have been fixed in the last couple releases of PHP. They worked really hard to fix the flaws, and still there's more coming, like property types.

One thing I'm particular exited about is the "Preloading" RFC (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/preload), which fixes one of PHP's oldest weaknesses: That code that is used on every request has to be loaded everytime a request comes in. Sure, thanks to Opcache a file only has to be compiled once, but the loading of the compiled classes into memory still makes for some overhead. With Preloading, if you use a framework like Laravel or Symfony, all core framework classes could be loaded once on PHP startup.