The one thing I really wish PHP would add is structurally typed objects. I really miss it when moving back and forth between PHP and TypeScript.

They could call them anonymous objects if they want to (that would be a more culturally correct analogue to anonymous classes).

Like, I wish it was possible to do

  {
    string $mystring = $myvar,
  }

  new class($myvar) {
    public function __construct(
      readonly public string $mystring,
    ) {}
  }

  function ({ string $mystring } $myobj) {
    echo $myobj->mystring;
  }

  type myobj_type = { string $mystring };

So in fact it is not just telling me it’s a hard problem, it’s telling me that the cost-benefit is still not there. It’s like it’s just not a very important problem (in an economic sense). And that is what surprises me, given that computers were made to do arbitrary calculations.