Even tho PHP 8 was officially released on November 26, 2020, you could already use its new syntax with PHP Tools before that date, and install PHP from sources. Now the release is available for the Windows platform and it can be installed on your development machine in an easy way.
If you read our Award Winning article (well, my Mom liked it) about how to use PHP Tools with Visual Studio, you'll understand that we didn't want to make the good people who enjoy using Visual Studio Code with PHP Tools left out, so we want to demonstrate how to debug your code on that platform.
You are probably well acquainted with breakpoints. You place them in your IDE (F9) and whenever the program reaches this location in the source code during the execution, the program stops and you can explore the state of the application. Very useful, right?
