Interview – Gina Peter Banyard
summary
PHP core is maintained in C, contributions range from tiny reproducible bug cases and tests to writing PHP extensions or refactoring legacy C across a 27–28 year codebase. Proposals borrow from other languages and sometimes land as concrete features like property hooks inspired by C and Scala. Testing is a bottleneck with extensions with ~8% test coverage, so common paths are learn C by fixing the core or add docs and website updates.
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