“I like solving problems — I don’t like programming. It’s tedious,” said the creator of PHP on stage at our DevBeat conference.

A senior Google database expert loves the JIT compiler, but others doubt its worth and say it could be hard to maintain.

You need to find a programming tutorial (that uses PHP) and start from there. If that's the level you're starting from, just creating this thread and asking questions is going to be way too ...

Microsoft has not stated why they will no longer support PHP 8.0, but it could be due to the extensive PHP support already existing in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).