In this episode we catch up with Joe Watkins to discuss all things PHP.
We start off discussion with his recent move to Spain, the pain of getting a good Internet connection and PHP TestFest.
This leads us on to highlight some recent work he is doing with adding PHP bindings to Bicoin’s Secp256k1 library and a Generic Traits idea.
From here we touch upon the additions that made it into PHP 7.2 and some that have already been accepted for 7.3.
Finally, we get Joe’s opinion on a couple of RFC’s (Call-site pass-by-reference and Operator functions).
Show Links
Accessing the internet is giving me a headache, until I look out the window…Musings, ninja ones - Test EtiquettePHP TestFestkrakjoe/wkhtmltox - Converting HTML to X since 2017Secp256k1 - Bitcoin Wikibitcoin-core/secp256k1 - Optimized C library for EC operations on curve secp256k1How to find and patch a bug in PHP source - Sammy Kaye PowersWriting tests for PHP source - Sammy Kaye PowersPHP 7.2.0 Release AnnouncementPHP - libsodiumLightweight Directory Access ProtocolPHP - packPHP - unpackPHP RFC - UUIDPHP RFC - Explicit call-site pass-by-referencePHP RFC - Operator functions