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[EdmondDantes]

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Hello!
How difficult is it to adapt the code to the TrueAsync API? What will need to be taken into account?

[binaryfire]

Hi @EdmondDantes! Big fan of the work you're doing on TrueAsync - it's cool to see native async making progress toward PHP core. Hypervel is specifically a Swoole-based framework - the Swoole runtime is deeply integrated at every level (coroutine context, connection pools, HTTP server, etc). We also use several Hyperf packages under the hood and regularly contribute back to the Hyperf framework. So we're pretty deeply embedded in the Swoole ecosystem.

Adapting to TrueAsync would essentially be a ground-up rewrite rather than an API adaptation. That's out of scope for Hypervel. If TrueAsync lands in PHP core, the more natural path would probably be for the Swoole maintainers to consider how Swoole could integrate with or provide compatibility for native async. That might be worth discussing with them directly: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src

That said, we'd love to see the PHP async ecosystem grow - happy to chat more if you have questions about how Hypervel/Swoole handles things!

[EdmondDantes]

Yeah. I’m curious whether there’s any experience reusing Symfony packages. It would be interesting to try building something on top of a large framework.

As for asynchrony in PHP, it is seen as an unnecessary feature that complicates the PHP core. That’s the reality.
As for integration with Swoole, it’s a good idea.

[binaryfire]

I haven't used many Symfony packages with Swoole yet. Hyperf only uses their simple utility-type packages. My guess is there may be issues with state / coroutine safety in some of the bigger ones, but I can't say for sure. We use symfony/mailer and symfony/process without any issues though, so that's a good sign. Best bet is to source-dive on the packages you're interested in and look for things like static properties that might be problematic.

I plan to build a routing package for Hypervel using symfony/routing soon so I'll know more after that.