PHP Generics Today (almost)
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Claim: generics add real static guarantees to PHP when combined with Psalm and PHP Stan; demo builds a generic-like Queue using docblock template annotations plus runtime type checks to catch bad inserts and let static analyzers validate callers. Result: static analysis finds many type errors early, but IDEs lack full support and language-level runtime checks remain absent, so the approach mostly works today with caveats for third-party libraries and legacy code.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:59Static Analysis
- 7:53Pros and Cons
- 9:42Possible Solutions
- 14:40Collections
- 22:00Extend Templates
- 24:07Restrict Types
- 29:01Installing Sam
- 35:11Summary
- 38:48The Syntax of Generics
- 39:24Abstract Syntax Tree
- 41:57Major Benefits of Php
