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Andrei Dascalu

Is php 8 serious? Php as a whole is serious. But php 8 is barely on the map. The bulk of php sites has recently changed from a vast majority running on php 5.6 to 7.2 over the course of the previous 2 years.
Php dominates to be sure, but as far as moving forward so developers work on newer versions, it's progressing damn slow. If you're lucky to use a newer version (also with respect to frameworks) the probably you're starting a new project.
But don't forget that just over half of all PHP websites are wordpress and a significant percent are Drupal. 79% of all sites are php, 40%of ALL sites are wordpress and 2% of ALL sites are Drupal.