RFC Showdown, Round 2 with Joe Watkins

In this weeks episode we catch up with Joe Watkins discussing all things PHP. We start off the discussion with how his role as release-manager is going for PHP 7.1, highlighting how Security bugs are defined and handled within internals. Following this we chat about several RFC’s that are under-discussion (Retry Keyword, UUID) and accepted (Libsodium, Object Typehint) for the next release. Finally, we mention a recent small extension Joe has been working on to provide user verified types within the language.

Show Links

• PHP 7.1.7 Changelog
• PHP Bugs
• PHP 7.2.0-alpha3
• PHP RFC - Retry Keyword
• Why is goto discouraged?
• PHP RFC - Namespaces in Core
• PHP RFC - Class Naming
• PHP RFC - Abolish Narrow Margins
• PHP RFC - UUID
• Packagist - ramsey/uuid
• PHP RFC - Libsodium
• Using Libsodium in PHP Projects
• PHP 7.2 - The First Programming Language to Add Modern Cryptography to its Standard Library
• Libsodium Quick Reference
• PHP RFC - Argon2 Password Hash
• PHP RFC - Object Typehint
• Covariance and contravariance
• Liskov substitution principle
• PHP RFC - Parameter Type Widening
• PHP RFC - Unary null coalescing operator
• krakjoe/utypes - User verified types
• PHP RFC - Iterable