Re: When will the extension and embedding APIs ever be cleaned or documented?

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 21:45 +0100, Nikita Popov wrote: > > I think we have a pretty good coverage of object and class APIs here: > http://www.phpinternalsbook.com :) > Why is that an eternal project not part of the documentation? Contributors seem to be php.net contributors ... sad :( > > > I have been learning to use the v8 API a lot and it has a very clean > > syntax. A third-party scripting language brought it even so far, > that it > > could almost map native types to script types - but that was pure C > ++ - > > both of them. > > > > V8 has the benefit of being written in C++ and being a lot newer. HHVM > has really nice extension APIs, all courtesy to C++. But a number of > core devs are rather opposed to using a more powerful language as the > basis for PHP > ;) *Glares at Pierre* > Well, C++ has tools which would help to provide way cleaner APIs in efficient manner. PHP's API has a >15 years history though with tons of modules depending on it. Any major break is bad. Mind: "Compatibility is a feature." (Bjarne Stroustrup) The fact that 10 years old extensions can be used with php git master with quite little work is not only a help for old users but also promise to new users that their investment won't be lost easily. johannes