7.4 added typed properties. 8 is adding better caching, a jit and my favourite feature

    match()

for all the enterprise heavy stuff I write a nicer cleaner and safer (by default) alternative to switch is going to make some code much cleaner to write and read and really that is what I care about more than almost anything else.

That it also returns a value is just the cherry on top. I am so tired of reading bad code with poor intent that has no comments and no documentation that's written in the most counter intuitive way.