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tambourine_man
on Nov 16, 2022
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Yes I’m well aware of the problems. I just seems to me that being PHP-like but incompatible is much more confusing than useful.
Shish2k
on Nov 16, 2022
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“PHP-like but incompatible” isn’t in
itself
a useful feature — it is the thing which
unlocks
a bunch of useful features (a sensible standard library, sensible list/dict datatypes, typed collections, XHP, async functions, generics)
tambourine_man
on Nov 16, 2022
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I get that. A superset could be interesting. Downright incompatible seems to tip the balance the wrong way.
LoganDark
on Nov 17, 2022
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PHP is a fractal of bad design[0] and creating a superset will not enable you to create a better language.
[0]:
https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
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