Does your application rely on autoloading? Chances are, it does – given autoloading was introduced to PHP back in Version 5. While the original global function __autoload has long been deprecated, with PHP 7.4 the whole concept of autoloading becomes superfluous! This talk will introduce you to one of the many new features of the upcoming PHP version that is likely to change pretty much everything: how to load classes and when, and how to deploy new versions to production.