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> Why would having coroutines as fibers in the core be a gamechanger? Plenty of technical reasons but for me, the biggest is unity among libraries/technologies

> Why would having coroutines as fibers in the core be a gamechanger? Plenty of technical reasons but for me, the biggest is unity among libraries/technologies. There been versions of coroutines/fibers around PHP for many years, first time I heard about it was a PHP fork that implemented fibers, don't recall the name but must have been something like 10 years ago... But the problem has always been that you cannot rely on the community having things like that available. Having it in the core language, means that more libraries can depend on it, and users are therefore incentives to learn more about it, as they can rely on it sticking around. Overall, I'm happy it's coming into the core language.

rob-olmos 4y ago
> first time I heard about it was a PHP fork that implemented fibers, don't recall the name Probably thinking of HHVM/Hack: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/asynchronous-operations/introduction https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/asynchronous-operations/introduct...
vedranm 4y ago
> Having it in the core language, means that more libraries can depend on it, and users are therefore incentives to learn more about it, as they can rely on it sticking around. Symfony 6.1 and the upcoming Laravel 10 require PHP 8.1+, but I don't see them using fibers yet. We'll have to wait and see.