PHP picks up ideas and syntax from many other languages. I'm happy about it, because it popularizes and normalizes concepts that used to be niche or advanced.
C established a lot of common syntax, and there's some consensus for post-C syntax emerging, like `name: type` syntax, `match` expressions, non-nullable types and operators for them.
Nowadays `[1,2,3]` seems like an obvious syntax for array literals, but it wasn't obvious before JSON and other languages converging on it.
C established a lot of common syntax, and there's some consensus for post-C syntax emerging, like `name: type` syntax, `match` expressions, non-nullable types and operators for them.
Nowadays `[1,2,3]` seems like an obvious syntax for array literals, but it wasn't obvious before JSON and other languages converging on it.