Re: Zephir, and other tangents

On Fri, Sep 20, 2024, at 12:28 PM, Dennis Snell wrote: > I’m not sure why you’re singling out Automattic, since nobody from > Automattic started this thread or requested other people provide > unfunded volunteer work, or why you’re expecting a single corporate > entity to fully fund long-term planned features in the language. Is > that how PHP normally grows? I’m not familiar with the process. > > My goal in sharing here is to help better represent my own perspective > of WordPress’ needs based on what I’ve seen. It’s long been on my list > to propose a WASM RFC, but because I personally haven’t had the > priority available to get an implementation working I haven’t done so. > It’s my impression from the documentation that the purpose of these > email threads w.r.t. RFCs is to gather interest and input before any > RFC would be put together, to hold these discussions before anyone > commits any major time to it. FWIW, I feel that an embedded Wasm bridge, with a good API, would be an excellent addition and way more useful than the crappy experience of FFI. Logistical question, for those with more stdlib expertise: Since we have other extensions in php-src that only work if you install some other library as well (eg, curl), which distros pretty much take care of for us, would a small in-php-src extension that is just a thin wrapper for Wasmtime or similar be viable? Not embedding Wasmtime into the php-src code, just the extension, and it's up to the user/distro to install both so that they work. (Note: I'm not asking if you think it's a good idea, just if it's physically possible/worth discussing.) --Larry Garfield