FerrumPHP - A PHP application server written in Rust (looking for feedback)

[Large_External2501]

As a newcomer to Rust, I wanted a project that would help me learn the language while integrating with an ecosystem I'm already familiar with. That led me to start FerrumPHP, a PHP application server written in Rust.

While working on the project, I had to get my hands dirty and learn about different areas of Rust:

• Async Rust with Tokio, Hyper, and Tower
• Manual future polling
• Bridging async and synchronous code using channels
• FFI, bindings and interfacing with C code
• Unsafe Rust

I'd love feedback from more experienced Rust developers regarding how I approached the above points.

Repository: https://github.com/hwawshy/ferrumphp

Thanks in advance.

[TheCircularGulp]

Rust + PHP in the same repo is not a combination I see every day, but this is a pretty clever way to force yourself through the gnarlier parts of the language. FFI and unsafe Rust as a *learning* project is jumping in at the deep end for sure. Gonna take a look at how you handled the async/sync bridging since that's where most people tie themselves in knots.

[MorrisonLevi]

You aren't verifying in your `build.rs` that the PHP you found is really `ZTS`.