On 23.09.2024 at 08:14, Mike Schinkel wrote: > However, my guess is that Automattic (spelled correctly) is not likely > to do that given how dismissive PHP Internals and by extension the PHP > Foundation has been regarding the needs of WordPress users for as long > as you Arvids have been doing PHP. > > But who knows, maybe there could be a détente? Who on this list would > be more open than in the past to treat concerns of WordPress users as > legitimate rather than dismiss them because (I am paraphrasing) "how bad > their code is?"
It would be ridiculous to dismiss any software written in PHP for having bad code, given the relatively huge amount of really bad PHP code we still have (e.g. web-pecl). And I hope that we are not (and have not been) generally dismissive of any PHP project whatsoever. However, we cannot please everybody. Bundling an extension increases the maintenance burden for the relatively few php-src developers; making an extension mandatory, or integrating something into the core, even more so, since we may need to also bundle and maintain external libraries (see e.g. ext/pcre). This doesn't mean that it can't happen, but obviously this requires the RFC process. Regarding <https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-php> which has mentioned a couple of times in this thread, I'm afraid the project has been abandoned. See e.g. <https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-php/issues/147>. But maybe someone replies to <https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-php/issues/151>. :) Christoph
