150: PHP was not designed for that?! with Joe Watkins

Published: June 15, 2018, 5 p.m.

In this weeks episode we catch-up with Joe Watkins.\nWe start off discussion with a recent blog post he wrote about the unhelpful \u2018just because you can, doesn\u2019t mean you should\u2019 response he sees surrounding some of his PHP extensions.\nFrom here we move on to highlight a debugger you can \u2018composer require\u2019, reasons behind creating such a tool and how it works.\nThis leads us on to mention some updates to uopz for PHP 7 support, a weak references RFC he has recently published and future plans for PHP.\nFinally, we wrap up by talking about a CommonMark extension he has published, and how CQL provides the ability to efficiently traverse a document.