I used to be a PHP developer, roughly a decade ago before I managed to get jobs that allowed me to move on to other langauges, specifically Clojure, but also Python and Ruby. One of my favourite things about Clojure as I became comfortable with it as a way of programming was the threading macros, and so it is with some amusement and I admit delight that I discover this morning that PHP 8.5 is going to have an analogue to thread-first added to it’s syntax: https://www.amitmerchant.com/the-pipe-operator-php-85/