nostr:npub1umuah47rwrtxxqq22c75kze3sdc68wd8394fkwvvym57na90gslq3lajxa The short answer is that I wanted a project I could start from scratch to help learn PHP internals and C.
The long answer is: While leading efforts to internationalize and localize our applications at $dayJob. We were using FormatJS, but there wasn’t a comparable library in PHP, so I started building FormatPHP, but I encountered a number of limitations with the native Intl extension.
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nostr:npub1umuah47rwrtxxqq22c75kze3sdc68wd8394fkwvvym57na90gslq3lajxa I found that FormatJS mostly provides polyfills for ECMA-402, so FormatPHP started looking a lot like an ECMA-402 port to PHP.
The more I looked at ECMA-402, the more I wanted a similar API to work with in PHP. So, ecma_intl isn’t just about fixing the limitations of ext-intl or providing the missing functionality, it’s about bringing that API to PHP.
So, in a sense it is about bringing more standards to PHP, but that wasn’t really the motivating factor.
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