[Twirrim]

I took a quick look, the dependency on php 8.5 is mildly irritating, even Ubuntu 26.04 isn't lined up to ship with that version, it's on 8.4.11.

You mention in the README that the goal is to run things in a standard environment, but then you're using a near bleeding edge PHP version that people are unlikely to be using?

I thought I'd just quickly spin up a container and take a look out of interest, but now it looks like I'll have to go dig into building my own PHP packages, or compiling my own version from scratch to even begin to look at things?

[gaigalas]

Those are quite good:

https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php

Anyway, whatever you write in an earlier PHP version is likely to work on future versions. PHP has remarkable BC.

If you're just experimenting, might as well start in the browser:

https://alganet.github.io/phasm/

Not all extensions available there, but it has the essentials.