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Exploring Coroutines in PHP

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116 points doekenorg | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 09:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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doekenorg ◴[08 Jul 25 14:16 UTC] No.44500217[source]▶
Just to clarify my intent with posts like this:

I'm not suggesting that PHP is the ideal tool for every use case. The goal is to share a concept that might be unfamiliar to some developers, using PHP as the context.

Sometimes learning about a concept in a familiar language helps you recognise where it might be useful elsewhere or apply it in a language that supports it better.

Terms like coroutines, concurrency, promises, etc, can be confusing; I just like to demystify them with easy-to-grasp examples. That does mean that examples can be contrived or very simple, but they are designed to get the point across.

Thanks for all the comments so far!

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1. supriyo-biswas ◴[08 Jul 25 15:15 UTC] No.44500805[source]▶
Unfortunately, as HN has had more users, the quality of discussions has gone down a bit and is flooded with routine complaining of this kind.

You just discovered what happens when you talk about PHP, and there are similar "Godwin's laws" for other topics, such as IPv6 (we needed IPv4 with extra octets), Google/Apple/Microsoft (any company trying to achieve a commercial objective is always equivalent to "enshittification") etc. Don't mind these too much - it's a good article!