#PHP 8.4 came out a few days ago, and I'm struggling to see the appeal of the new property hooks.

Not a fan of magic in my code, give me an explicit getter and setter any day.

Feels like things have gone off the rails a bit with new syntax fluff.

Hallo, I'm Richard.

🤓 Software Engineer, currently modernising a PHP monolith.

Things I wistfully consider hobbies despite spending my spare time wrangling a toddler / chaos gibbon:

🎲 Tabletop games: board, RPGs, minis
🎮 Xbox: mostly Fallout tbh
🚀 SciFi: BSG, B5, TNG, firefly
🤘 Metal
🎸 Guitar

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