With the current changes made in PHP 8.3 (deprecating the INI settings affecting assertions) and the increasing amount of open source libraries utilizing `assert()` as an easy means to ensure obscure return cases of PHP core function calls are in fact not triggered (e.g. no NULL or FALSE has been returned, but the useful value), the comment made about assertions only being a tool used during development should be considered invalid.
In addition, static code analysis tools use the knowledge gained from `assert($x instanceof MyClass)` to know the type or types that are possible.
Assertions are actively being used in production code, they are useful, and disabling them would only gain minimal performance benefits because the asserted expression usually is very small.
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