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shittyadmin on Feb 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving from Go to PHP Again

To be clear, this just means that PHP has libsodium as an official language extension. Most modern languages have better package management than PHP and make pulling it in as a library trivial.

This has nothing to do with homomorphic encryption, unless I'm missing something.

00deadbeef on Feb 8, 2019 [–]

  composer require some/library

That's PHP's package management. What's so non-trivial about that?

spdionis on Feb 8, 2019 | [–]

And, as a bonus feature, composer install won't automatically update your lock file!!

Unlike some other package managers...

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