17 Aug 2025
Yes, absolutely! Unlike tools in the PHP ecosystem that share libraries like PHP-Parser, and BetterReflection, we had to build the entire Mago stack from scratch in Rust: lexer, parser, AST, name resolver, reflections (codex), and more.
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Worked on reducing overhead of #betterreflection to improve performance of #phpstan and #rector for projects which register a custom autoloader.
Our legacy projects autoloader which works in a include-path like fashion triggered lots of IO before.
Should be gone in next release
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In Q1/2024 I #contributed to 26 #opensource projects a whopping 92 merged Pull Requests, mostly in my freetime.
Highlights
- 28 @phpstan
- 2 @psalmphp
- 7 #phpunit
- 3 #betterreflection
- 2 nikic #phpparser
- 5 @rectorphp
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I have worked on @RoaveTeam BetterReflection in the last few days, so we can improve handling of classes which inherit/extend/implement/use types which are not autoloadable in @phpstan and @rectorphp
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6 Jul 2023
As far as I know BetterReflection refers to the list of features, and PHAR support isn't one of them... But maybe @RoaveTeam can help, it's their concept after all 🙂.
github.com/ondrejmirtes/Bett…
PS. @OndrejMirtes you still refer to Roave's package in readme 😉.
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~3% faster @rectorphp because of improvements in @RoaveTeam #BetterReflection
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28 Sep 2022
Yes, I saw your diff, and it's not "a bit". I'm interesting by your changes, especially PHP version compat. PHPStan is a great contribution to PHP ecosystem, and very popular (thanks for your work), and I was affraid that your fork will overshadow BetterReflection.
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28 Sep 2022
What? Roave/BetterReflection is alive and kicking, maintained and with 6.0.0 soon to be released. I have an up-to-date fork because I sometimes need bit different behaviour for different purposes.
But you can use Roave/BetterReflection without any issues.
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28 Sep 2022
BetterReflection is a Schrodinger library, dead and alive at the same time?
28 Sep 2022
@RoaveTeam BetterReflection, some PR are closed, to be part of WorseReflection, itself archived to be merged in the phpactr project and not available as a lib. @OndrejMirtes forked BetterReflection to make it part of @phpstan (after NS rename). What's the hell is that!
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class_alias↪️'BetterReflection', '✨🪞'↩️;
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25 Dec 2021
This is huge. BetterReflection plays a big part in PHPStan’s usefulness, it enables analysis of legacy codebases with static reflection.
PHPStan 1.3.0 based on BR 5.0 is coming soon with full PHP 8.1 Enums support. You can already play with it on phpstan.org!
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3 Aug 2021
This is one of the reason why I did some PRs for the Roave/BetterReflection as most TYPO3 extension (incl. mine) use custom vendor-dirs.
27 Jan 2021
Try to use BetterReflection? It will not execute any code, so that you can find doublicate methods. github.com/Roave/BetterRefle…
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7 Aug 2020
❤️ Simple PHP Code Parser - ❤️ Simple PHP Code Parser It based on code from “JetBrains/phpstorm-stubs” but instead of Php-Reflection we now use nikic/PHP-Parser, BetterReflection, phpDocumentor and PHPStan/phpdoc-parser internally. So, you can... tmblr.co/ZmVQWyYl6T0Pui00
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