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An interview with Larry Garfield, a prominent PHP contributor, as part of a PHP 30th anniversary series. Larry recounts his journey from PHP 3 in 1999 through leading the GoPHP5 campaign, modernizing Drupal 8, co-authoring key RFCs (Enums, Property Hooks, Pipe Operator), and advocating for functional programming in PHP. He discusses PHP's most significant recent advancements including constructor property promotion, named arguments, and property hooks; the challenges facing new core contributors; the critical role of the PHP Foundation; PHP's persistent image problem despite being a modern, capable language; and his vision for persistent-process PHP with async support and websockets as the most important technical frontier ahead.

🐘 PHP 30 Years - A Conversation with Larry Garfield

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