laruence/yar

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1435 stars · 317 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Yar is a lightweight, concurrent RPC framework implemented as a native PHP extension (written in C), supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP transports with pluggable packagers (PHP, JSON, Msgpack). It enables fast RPC communication between PHP applications and cross-language interop with C, Java, and Lua Yar implementations.

Use cases

• call remote PHP services over RPC
• make multiple RPC calls concurrently from PHP
• build internal microservice communication between PHP apps
• serialize RPC payloads with msgpack or
• expose PHP services callable from C, Java, or Lua clients

When to choose

• you need low-latency RPC between PHP applications with minimal setup
• you want concurrent parallel RPC calls from PHP
• you prefer a native extension over Composer-based userland libraries
• you need cross-language RPC with PHP, C, Java, or Lua

When to avoid

• you need public-facing APIs for arbitrary third-party clients
• you require built-in service discovery, load balancing, or streaming
• you need schema-driven code generation like gRPC with Protobuf

Facets

library · maturity stable

rpc serialization concurrency backend apis microservices web-development php c windows cross-platform pecl-extension msgpack concurrent-rpc microservices http-transport tcp-transport linux macos

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