One unambiguously good thing PHP project could would be to port the parser to Rust, which would unlock the potential for lightning-fast static analysis. Right now anyone venturing into a PHP-specific compiled language tooling has to also write and maintain their own parser, which is out of reach of basically everyone except JetBrains.

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I write developer tooling at Slack. I used to work at Vimeo, where I made @psalm
Announcing the official, hyperoptimized Psalm docker image, +50% faster than Psalm on normal PHP!
I've also contributed the underlying deepbind patch to upstream PHP, and it will be available for everyone to use in PHP 8.5 (or right now, if you're using the Psalm docker image)!
https://blog.daniil.it/2025/07/10/official-psalm-docker-image/