It is hard to design good API:s that can last for decades. Just look at Java, language that is backed by large international corporations but the Java standard

It is hard to design good API:s that can last for decades. Just look at Java, language that is backed by large international corporations but the Java standard library still sucks. PHP core is a much smaller community driven project. Key to great APIs is battle tested APIs in real world projects, finetuned over years of experience. PHP has that in the much larger general PHP community and to access it you use composer. We, the PHP community, must use all resources to compete with other languages, it is unrealistic that the core PHP team can implement a great API, for example we can look at the filter API, it works but it is not great. PHP core also has longer release cycles. We need to push PHP developers to use composer more, maybe the PHP docs should state that.