Summary

It cannot be repeated enough: PHP is evolving in the most beautiful way and is catching up with its competitors in the web world. The language listens to the community and the developers by offering them the tools they need to answer modern problems in the most viable way possible.

We have come a long way from a language that allowed everything and was very (too) lax for the challenges of today’s web applications. Despite the explosion of frontend frameworks and technologies aimed at replacing server languages with languages intended for the frontend (such as Node.js with JavaScript), PHP has nothing to be ashamed of. Its impressive performance, its speed of evolution, and the reputation it has built over the years show that it still has a bright future ahead of it.

Although clean code is, as we have seen, a state of mind and, in a way, a philosophy, solutions native to the language are arriving in spades to help us apply them as well as possible. Even better,...