pilky, 27 days ago

@ctietze Honestly, modern PHP is a pretty fantastic language

helge, 27 days ago

@pilky @ctietze It still can't be embedded cleanly into other environments, how weird is that (apart from the language itself).

ctietze, 27 days ago

@helge What does that mean? @pilky

helge, 27 days ago

@ctietze That you cannot easily embed PHP as a library and integrate it as a scripting language. Similar to what you do w/ JSCore.
Pretty much any scripting language has that but PHP.

ctietze, 27 days ago

@helge I see! I haven't tried to ship any scripting language executable in a while (tried a decade ago with Ruby IIRC). So yeah, a quick glance shows that you can get embedded PHP server processes maybe, but not much else. A C library/runtime (PH7) is also a reimplementation for feature parity. That's kind of wild.

helge, 27 days ago

@ctietze I've proactively tried to integrate PHP into Swift about 2 years ago, didn't get it to work. And I've done a lot of bridges before, Python, SpiderMonkey, JNI, yes, even Guile! 🙈

ctietze, 27 days ago

@pilky It is! Worked on a small thing for Zettelkasten.de in January and it's nothing like the stuff I've been using in 2003 :)