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PHP 8.4 in 2026: The Features That Stuck

A practical look back at PHP 8.4 well into 2026: which features I kept in production, from property hooks to the new array helpers, and…

PHP 8.4's asymmetric visibility lets a property be public to read but private to write. I deleted a stack of getters. Here's the syntax, the…

A year of shipping PHP 8.4 property hooks in production: what actually replaced my old methods, where they made things worse, and the gotcha I…