PHP has been updated with quite a few syntax options in recent years. Let's highlight some of them and see if you're using them.
PHP 7.4 (released in Nov 2019)
Typed Properties
class Post { public string $title;}The property $title will have to be only a string.
Arrow Functions
A second new feature introduced in PHP 7.4 is...
my 5 cents worth There are differences in the outputs of -v or --version eg php artisan -v or php artisan --version I just got into the habbit of using --version as -v actual calls verbose which often provides more detailed information about its execution etc and not just the version number which is what we are chasing 99% of the time