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The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

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133 points avan1 | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 19:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hu3 ◴[30 Aug 25 20:19 UTC] No.45077689[source]▶
> In short, the modern PHP ecosystem gives us the best of both worlds: the ability to build quickly and confidently in PHP, while still having powerful options (C, Rust, Go) for performance-critical parts. This hybrid approach lets us stay productive without sacrificing speed where it matters most.

I understand this for a large codebase where rewriting is not feasible.

But if that wasn't the case, a C# APIs achieves both speed of development and execution in my experience. You'll rarely need to reach for C++ or Rust.

PHP is great but the language still doesn't allow things like typed arrays. It will happily accept string in a array of dates, for example.

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1. jofla_net ◴[30 Aug 25 22:40 UTC] No.45078609[source]▶
>It will happily accept string in a array of dates, for example.

Yeah theres a bunch of oddities that rear their head from time to time.

I've had one peculiar JSON de-serialize bug lately that really threw me for a while. I normally do the json_decode() with the second arg set true, which yields an assoc arr. This doesn't tell the whole story though. IF the key is numeric when decoding, PHP will make its key an int! and not a string like the rest. I'm guessing it does the equivalent of an is_numeric() check or something.

This yields an array with keys which could be ints and strings :/

Still for all its warts though it is a fantastically Frankenstein of a language!