Hello Internals! My friend Grigory has cooked up an exciting package implementing generics with full runtime type checking in userland. I honestly believe it can be surpassed only by doing a full native implementation (which we know is fairly unfeasible from Nikita's previous research), it's transparent to the PHP code (if disabled, the code will still run just fine), is pretty light performance impact wise and requires zero pre and post processing (aka "compiling") of the code. It's as transparent for the developers as possible.
https://packagist.org/packages/grikdotnet/generics https://github.com/grikdotnet/generics List on what's implemented and what is possible: https://github.com/grikdotnet/generics/blob/master/documentation/story.md#implemented The documentation folder contains quite a bit of information :) I'm posting this to internals for the following reasons: - * Seeking advice and know-how on how to improve performance - * Ideas on making the syntax better - * Explore the possibility of making changes to the PHP engine - Improve performance - Support extended syntax in the attributes like #[\Generics\T(Collection<int><float>)] so it doesn't have to be a string that needs to be parsed as it's now - Return type attributes? - How about having a built in generics empowering attribute that userland libraries can take advantage off and do implementations? - Having an extended discussion of the feature and where it can be taken going forward - Seeking help with implementing missing features, code review, etc Grigory has signed up to the list, so you can direct all the questions in the thread to him :) Sincerely, Arvīds Godjuks +371 26 851 664 arvids.godj...@gmail.com Telegram: @psihius https://t.me/psihius
