Re: [RFC] [Discussion] Bound-Erased Generic Types

On 12 May 2026 13:01:44 BST, Seifeddine Gmati <azjezz@carthage.software> wrote: > >The audience for native generics is the same audience that already >uses docblock generics, which is the same audience that already runs >SA. This is an assumption that a lot of your reasoning seems to be based on, and as I've said already, I think it's a false assumption. As soon as PHP ships native syntax for generics, an entirely new set of users will hear about it and try to use it. Their experience is going to be shaped by what *PHP itself* does with that new syntax. I would also argue that the flipside applies: if the audience for the feature really is existing users of third-party SA tools, then it shouldn't be shipped as part of php-src. The language should only provide the building blocks for those tools to work with - and attributes seem perfectly suited here. It's not the job of this list to create standards for what attributes third-party tools support. Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]