Luther Monson

Go by way of PHP · Containers · VMs · Windows · Kubernetes

The Pragmatism of ePHPm - Every Decision Has a "Because" Behind It

ePHPm hit v0.1.0 this week. It isn't a rewrite-it-in-Rust project. Here's what I built, what I borrowed, what I sent upstream, and what I deliberately haven't built.

June 21, 2026

7-Minute Read

ePHPm in the center with six boxes: Rust and C wrapper, KV store, chitchat gossip, static-php-cli upstream fixes, litewire, and a dashed box of features not built yet

ePHPm tagged v0.1.0 this week, three months after the first commit. Before the feature list grows any further I want to write down how decisions get made on it. This is mostly for myself. The easiest way to ruin a project like this is to let it turn into a checklist of things other projects have.