Microsoft Support of PHP on Windows

[Costas]

We are committed to maintaining development and building of PHP on Windows for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 as long as they are officially supported. We are not, however, going to be supporting PHP for Windows in any capacity for version 8.0 and beyond.

src - https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/110907


potentially adding a JIT compiler in PHP 8.0
https://stitcher.io/blog/php-jit
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/jit