For the end of June, we prepared some final cleanups and fixes, improved APIs, and also a bunch of new features. The compiler now handles the majority of publicly available opensource code with no or very few modifications. Also, there are some PHP 8 features available if you’re keen to try them in your code.
... continue readingA major role of a compiler is the code analysis it performs before turning a programming language into machine code. During this process, a variety of diagnostics are performed, which provides valuable insights into the code that’s being compiled. Let’s take a look at what we’ve found when compiling the PHP world.
... continue readingAutoloading is an essential part of PHP applications, required due to the nature of PHP itself. The common standard defined by the “composer dependency manager” is used across the majority of frameworks and components, and as explained on the documentation page, autoloading can eat up as much as 100ms of request time. Let’s have a […]
... continue readingWe stepped on the gas lately and implemented hundreds of little changes and features in the PeachPie platform gearing up for its 1.0 release. What’s new?
... continue readingYou may have come across the fact that we managed to run WordPress on .NET. In this article, we take a look at what’s under the hood and we’ll examine some of the obstacles and the technical solution behind this project.
... continue readingThere are a few tools out there that allow you to create an executable console application in PHP, but they tend to be a little heavy and limited to a certain OS. With PeachPie, console apps can be created straightforwardly, without having to distribute the sources, and it can be debugged right in Visual Studio.
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