2 years ago

It's been four years since I published the first version of https://github.com/spatie/data-transfer-object together with my then-colleagues at Spatie. Back then, PHP 7.3 was just around the corner and the package started out as a way to add complex runtime type checks for class properties. It gave programmers certainty about whether they were actually dealing with the right data in a typed way: class PostData extends DataTransferObject { public $property; public $property; public $property; public $property; public $property; public $property; public $property; public $property; public $property; } Fast forward a year to PHP 7.4, and typed properties were added.

It's better to give the package a worthy ending, than a slow death (which is already happening, kind of).