I need to remember that Mastodon exists! I’m currently writing a bunch of content to do with PHP and this would be the perfect place to talk about that.
I’m currently trying to decide whether #php#reflection is an interesting enough topic that people may like an in-depth course/series on it. It seems to be something a lot of people are vaguely aware of, but don’t really know the details.
@ollieread My default answer to questions about this sort of thing is “absolutely you should write about this.” I asked this question back in 2008 about testing #php code and the answer was “get to it” and it built my entire career.
@grmpyprogrammer well it definitely seems to be something people are interested in, and doesn't seem to be covered anywhere else. Not to any decent degree either, so maybe I will.
I wrote that, and it totally revolves around variance, since I had to devise a way around that to create a smooth migration path for PHP-FIG new typed interfaces...
It's interesting that you should mention modern PHP and PSRs, as I've long held that some of those could do with being updated, as I think they're bit a limiting at present. (also I think some of them could be improved) 😅
@ollieread well, the PSR scope is intentionally reduced to avoid over-standardization. And those are actively being used by multiple current frameworks and libraries right now.
Still, there are a couple of cases where we would like to do improvements, and the service registration for container is one currently being discussed in the mailing list.
@alessandrolai interestingly, the container PSR is the one that I think is the most limiting, or needs improvement. Honestly, I'd probably create a dependency injection PSR that utilises it but adds some base indication for more advanced features, as well as some attributes for utilisation.
I think attributes are the future of PSRs as they'll let you hook into WAY more systems without making those systems adhere to specific contracts.
@alessandrolai I think it could be achieved without venturing into implementation.
It's super rough (I threw it together in the last 5–10 minutes), but here's a write-up that hopefully explains enough of it. It's concept I was going to explore anyway.
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