[noir_lord]

It's gotten a lot better since I started using it ~2009 and now.

7.4 added typed properties. 8 is adding better caching, a jit and my favourite feature

    match()

https://php.watch/versions/8.0#match-expression

for all the enterprise heavy stuff I write a nicer cleaner and safer (by default) alternative to switch is going to make some code much cleaner to write and read and really that is what I care about more than almost anything else.

That it also returns a value is just the cherry on top. I am so tired of reading bad code with poor intent that has no comments and no documentation that's written in the most counter intuitive way.

[untog]

Match looks exactly how Rust’s match works and it’s one of my favourite parts of the language. Happy to see it elsewhere too.

[epse]

It doesn't really pattern match like rust, but it's still very useful

[nawarian]

Not yet: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/match_expression_v2#future_scope

[admissionsguy]

The match expression is so elegant. For the past 10 years I've been puzzled by how verbose switch is.

[noir_lord]

It's better than switch for a lot of switch use cases, it's still not 'real' pattern matching but yeah I'm looking forwards to it.