blog.packagist.com
Jordi Boggiano and Nils Adermann look back on fifteen years of Packagist.org, which has now served more
than 200 billion package installs. They tell how Composer and Packagist came out of the needs of phpBB and
Symfony. They also explain why the companies that build on the registry need to help fund it.
Picked by Stefan Priebsch and Sebastian Bergmann –
"Composer and Packagist are part of nearly every PHP project, and keeping them running and secure is
demanding work that most of us never see. Jordi and Nils have carried it for fifteen years, and it is time
for the PHP community to share the load."
thephp.foundation
The author explains why 0.1 + 0.2 is not exactly 0.3, and why in PHP an integer that grows beyond
PHP_INT_MAX silently becomes a float and loses precision. The article explains the reasons behind these
precision problems and how to handle them. A tolerance can be enough for comparisons, while BCMath or GMP
can give exact results if the values are passed as strings before any precision is lost.
Picked by Stefan Priebsch –
"Many developers know that floats are imprecise, but fewer know that PHP's integers become floats when they
overflow. An exact result depends on choosing the right
representation before the calculation begins."
phpstan.org
Ondřej Mirtes presents PHPStan 2.3, which analyzes the source code of WordPress in 8 seconds on his
machine, where it needed 60 seconds at the end of 2025. Much of the gain comes from PHPStan Turbo, an
extension written in C++ that most users get automatically. A rewrite of the analysis engine made the
release faster, too, and it enabled new features such as better type inference for generics and the
detection of unused variables.
Picked by Sebastian Bergmann –
"When static analysis finishes in seconds, developers run it more often
and agents can deliver results faster.
Ondřej's work this year has improved not only
PHPStan's performance, but also its precision."
