Every Laravel dev has written PHP generics. You just wrote them inside a comment and pretended it...
An RFC by Seifeddine Gmati proposes native PHP generics syntax, formalizing 200k+ @template annotations in PHPDoc. Bound-erased generics enable static type-checking with zero runtime cost, unifying analyzer behavior and removing doc-block workarounds.
Every Laravel dev has written PHP generics. You just wrote them inside a comment and pretended it didn't count.
/** @return Collection<CartItemDTO> */
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That line is a generic type. PHPStan reads it, your IDE reads it, but PHP itself shrugs and ignores it. A new RFC, Bound-Erased Generic Types, wants to turn those comments into real syntax. Let's start with what a generic even is, then look at why PHP has fought this for a decade.
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