Written by Krakjoe
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on Nov. 23, 2021
Fig 1: The PHP FoundationI wrote some time ago about the Bus Factor of PHP, the number I came up with was 2.Just after I wrote about this, JetBrains reached out to me and others and we discussed the idea of starting a foundation. From the very start it has been about raising money to employ people,…
Written by Krakjoe
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on Jul. 22, 2021
Fig 1. Some DocsOne of the best assets we have is the extensive user land documentation for PHP. The documentation is maintained by several teams of developers working on one or more translations of the raw docbook format: A huge amount of effort is expended on the maintenance of user land document…
Written by Krakjoe
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on Jun. 30, 2021
Fig 1. PFA RFCToday the vote will close on Partial Function Application, and the feature has been refused.It was less effort to write a debugger for PHP than it was to make partial function application work! The debugger, a few of us wrote in a few days. Partial application took up many weeks of my…
Written by Krakjoe
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on Jun. 28, 2021
Fig 1. Some Magnified StringsHow much magnification does it take to make something quite tidy, like a piece of string, look an utter mess ?There is an RFC in progress called is_literal which I'm providing the implementation for.I want to talk a little bit about that ...Where did it start ?You imagi…
Written by Krakjoe
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on Jun. 19, 2021
Fig 1. A BinMost days, I try to find some time to work on PHP. I consider it my mission to push this thing forward. Recently, I've also made it my mission to get your boss to pay you to push this thing forward. One of the problems with this, that I hear all the time:What if we allow one of our empl…
Written by Krakjoe
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on Jun. 9, 2021
Fig 1. Some FiberFibers are going to be available from PHP 8.1, they were voted in 50 to 14 ... I was one of the 14.I've said before that I think merging Fibers was a mistake, but at this point, it doesn't matter what I think or thought: They are in fact part of the source code, and we have to work…