Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
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Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
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Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#2How does it differ from HHVM REPL or PsySH? I'm not a PHP dev so I may be missing some finer points of this project - care to elaborate?
Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#3What advantage does this have over the built in REPL you can find with php -a (assuming readline instead of libedit)? They fixed fatal behavior a few versions ago, which was my last gripe with it.
Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#4What advantage does this have over the built in REPL you can find with php -a (assuming readline instead of libedit)? They fixed fatal behavior a few versions ago, which was my last gripe with it.
PHP's built-in interactive mode isn't a REPL, there's no "P".
Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#5How does it differ from HHVM REPL or PsySH? I'm not a PHP dev so I may be missing some finer points of this project - care to elaborate?
I'll compare it to PsySH. Though this doesn't indicate any superiority in quality, I think it's important to note that Boris is arguably much more popular (measured in downloads from Packagist + stars on GitHub). From the start (back in 2011, before PsySH), Boris was meant to be tiny and light-weight in its core, weighing in at a few hundred lines of fairly straightforward code (brainstorming ideas for an extension API). Vanilla Boris is not as advanced as PsySH out-of-the-box, mostly a taste thing.
Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#6What advantage does this have over the built in REPL you can find with php -a (assuming readline instead of libedit)? They fixed fatal behavior a few versions ago, which was my last gripe with it.
PHP's built-in interactive mode isn't a REPL, there's no "P".
How a single missing letter can turn into a major inconvenience.
Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#7Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#8How does it differ from HHVM REPL or PsySH? I'm not a PHP dev so I may be missing some finer points of this project - care to elaborate?
I'll compare it to PsySH. Though this doesn't indicate any superiority in quality, I think it's important to note that Boris is arguably much more popular (measured in downloads from Packagist + stars on GitHub). From the start (back in 2011, before PsySH), Boris was meant to be tiny and light-weight in its core, weighing in at a few hundred lines of fairly straightforward code (brainstorming ideas for an extension A…
I would attribute a percentage of the downloads for Boris to being included in Laravel 4.
Laravel 5 is now using PsySH.
Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#9I have a PHP REPL on repl.it [1] but it's admittedly not that great because certain errors are impossible to recover from, for example a call to an undefined function just kills the process. I don't know how Boris does it but I should just use it.
Re: Boris – A tiny REPL for PHP
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll compare it to PsySH. Though this doesn't indicate any superiority in quality, I think it's important to note that Boris is arguably much more popular (measured in downloads from Packagist + stars on GitHub). From the start (back in 2011, before PsySH), Boris was meant to be tiny and light-weight in its core, weighing in at a few hundred lines of fairly straightforward code (brainstorming ideas for an extension A…
I would attribute a percentage of the downloads for Boris to being included in Laravel 4. Laravel 5 is now using PsySH.
Data point: PsySH went from ~15k Packagist downloads total to ~6-8k downloads per day when Laravel 5 shipped.