psl VS scalar_objects

azjezz/psl: PHP Standard Library - a modern, consistent, centralized, well-typed, non-blocking set of APIs for PHP programmers

One of the companies made heavy use of azjezz/psl and used extended rules for it. Anyone who's not used to strict type mode and type-hinting all the code they write would have a hard time getting a job at those companies.

For the order of function arguments: sounds like you'd enjoy https://github.com/azjezz/psl.

Yes it's a userland workaround and not a fix for the language, but it's thinking about these issues and a PHP extension (offering better performance) is being talked about.

I wrote a library for this, and more: https://github.com/azjezz/psl

Why use regular expressions for something so simple as `trim()`? https://github.com/azjezz/psl/blob/1.5.x/src/Psl/Str/trim.php#L23

I know there are such experiments, but it's unlikely to become a part of the language any time soon :(

Scalar objects has a prototype implementation since at least 2015: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects/issues/20

For the love of god yes please yes this 1000x. I'd like to throw in scalar objects too.

Nikita Popov tried to solve the problem with this extension, but it never got wide support. The problem is that without users asking for this feature, Jetbrains and psalm/phpstan will not integrate it. But w/o their support, users cannot not even try the extension as everything will be shown as error.

These as it would remove the need to even care about the old function names which would exist for B/C purposes. We'd then be able to use primitive types as objects with functions to do all their manipulation as needed.

It's been possible for quite a while but you have to enable a custom extension: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects and create an implementation of the class wrapper. I made one quite some time ago which is probably very incomplete: https://github.com/RikudouSage/scalar-objects.