UNunclet·Jan 3, 2023Submission
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amp
PHP2019–2023
amphp / amp
amp
A non-blocking concurrency framework for PHP applications. 🐘
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A non-blocking concurrency framework for PHP applications. 🐘
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like the sibling comment said, web apps are written in Symfony/Laravel, but the framework abstractions with web apps might not paint you a clear picture of how the core…
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourceslike the sibling comment said, web apps are written in Symfony/Laravel, but the framework abstractions with web apps might not paint you a clear picture of how the core language has improved. it will give you a good idea what it's like to build applications.
my favorite part of modern PHP is how nice writing libraries is. so it might not be what you're looking for, but I remember being pretty impressed with the code quality of the Amp PHP library recently. the v3 branch is 8.x only and (I believe) is targeting the Fibers feature just introduced in 8.1
https://github.com/amphp/amp/tree/v3
one of the best things to come with PHP are the community standardizations around things like interfaces for HTTP requests, logging, DI containers, and even code style standards. it makes for a very consistent experience when developing (at least when you
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're in the "new world"), since most newer libraries are all written in a similar style using common interfaces
It's not built into the language? How can we be sure this project with 2k Github stars won't segfault, memleak, deadlock, or have some other horrible bug [1]? I haven't done full due diligence, but I'm already suspicious. The open tickets don't look good [2].
> You mean that you don't know how to
I'm not convinced you found an appropriate answer either.
In any case, this should be a language feature.
[1] It looks like it relies on bindings to an unofficial native code extension.
[2] https://github.com/amphp/amp/issues/300
In A look at modern PHP- You can't spin up multiple request threads to make concurrent non-blocking queries in PHP
You mean that you don't know how to: https://github.com/amphp/amp
In A look at modern PHPThanks, that's one solution if making multiple calls is needed.
That was mostly an example though, for example if I wanted to run 3 functions in parallel, I don't find any "easy" and elegant way. Some libraries exist like amp, but it seems a bit heavy handed as the language itself doesn't have great tools for it https://github.com/amphp/amp
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