If it's mildly good in most cases as you claim, and catastrophically bad in certain cases as seems clear, then overall it's not a net gain.
This is what continually baffles me about PHP. There are plenty of bad languages out there, but PHP seems pretty much unique in having a community that actively resists any improvement and actively campaigns to keep the broken stuff around.
This is what continually baffles me about PHP. There are plenty of bad languages out there, but PHP seems pretty much unique in having a community that actively resists any improvement and actively campaigns to keep the broken stuff around.