[xrstf]

> But a lot of things about php sucked, at least 10 years ago when I stopped needing to write it.

Sadly you missed out on the major advances that happened in the PHP ecosystem, like properly namespaced code, massive performance gains since PHP 5.3, Composer, modern frameworks, the PSR initiative (even though one might not agree with all their "standards") and so much more. So I would not judge PHP's evolution by that one proposal ;) A lot more were accepted, implemented and released, from type annotations to the spacechip operator. Personally I'm thankful that nobody further pursued the idea of tainted strings for PHP.

[girvo]

PHP 7 (return type hinting!), PSRs, Composer, and The League of Extraordinary Packages make programming in PHP genuinely nice in 2016. It's kind of amazing, in some ways...