Type-safe collections in PHP 8.4: what I wish arrays had

You know the feeling. You're three callbacks deep in array_map , you tack on array_filter , then array_values to fix the keys, and PhpStorm gives up and types everything as array . PHPStan was useful five lines ago. Now it's just nodding politely. I spent six months of weekends building a library to fix this. It's called noctud/collection , it's PHP 8.4+ only, and this post is about why. The everyday pain Here's a scene that probably looks familiar: $activeAdmins = array_values ( array_filter (