On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:13 PM Dmitry Stogov <dmi...@zend.com> wrote:
> Hi internals, > > > The FFI RFC is turned into voting state. > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ffi > > > There were very few minor changes since the initial proposal, e.g. > renaming FFI:array_type() into FFI::arrayType() > > > Thanks. Dmitry. > My main concern here is that this is a very new extension and I think that apart from you barely anyone had a chance to actually implement something based on it and gain experience using the proposed API. Bundling an extension with PHP means that the API becomes frozen in time and it becomes very hard to change anything. I think that having FFI support is important, but I'm afraid that once we bundle this extension and it will see more usage, it will quickly turn out that the API needs to change to make it easier to use or accommodate more use-cases. My other concern is platform support. FFI is by nature a rather platform dependent. The RFC says that the extension is currently tested on Linux and Windows. It would be great if someone using such a system can confirm whether it also works on OSX and FreeBSD, so we at least have coverage of the major platforms. Nikita
