Recording from the October 2020 edition of Laravel Worldwide Meetup where Liam Hammet (starting at 36:58) showed off some nice use cases for custom autoloaders in PHP:
We use autoloaders in PHP all the time, but if you change your mindset a little, you’ll find they can do a lot more than you might’ve thought. We’ll be taking a look at using some unconventional techniques, we can use autoloaders to take PHP a step further, introducing interesting and exciting new functionality PHP natively doesn’t support.
Really enlightening stuff! Slides also available.