Doing Affects Thinking

I ultimately decided not to use Psalm. Of the hundreds of errors I fixed when trying it, in a corpus of 1500+, only a handful would have had operational impact.

But ever since, I've been quietly noticing "Psalm errors," where the phpdoc doesn't match types in practice, or doesn't match the actual type declarations on the method.

(Of course, my API design has been strongly affected by PHP type declaration syntax; I am now trying to design "less convenient" interfaces that offer stronger type information for the IDE. I can't declare string|array|false in PHP, but I can declare ?array for an array or null. This just happens to align with reducing the amount of options Psalm has to deal with.)