Re: [VOTE] True Async RFC 1.6

On Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM Edmond Dantes <edmond.ht@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > > how do I keep my project always-sync without risking one of my composer > packages suddenly calling spawn() and causing bugs I have no idea how to > even begin to understand? > > This idea was mentioned a bit earlier in the discussion. You can use a > special setting to disable asynchrony. There are many different > possibilities here. For example, you can tell Composer not to use > async packages. And so on. You can come up with your own protection > mechanisms. There is no technical problem here in terms of > implementation. > Why not enable asynchronous mode in PHP explicitly through php.ini? > I'm not sure if INI is going to be successful. I would bet that it is going to get rejected as PHP has been moving against introducing INI for language / extension behavior changes. It reminds to some extend the scalar type hints with strict / non strict discussion that ended up using declare keyword. So maybe async could use it too and it could be enabled per file in a similar way as strict types. I haven't thought if it would always make sense for async but for projects that want to be fully async, it would need to be declared in each file. Cheers Jakub