[fetbaffe]

PHP is the diamond in the rough. Don't let all the bad tutorials fool you, beneath is a great platform where you are truly productive.

You get far by only having PHP and you get twice that by only installing composer.

No insane build steps, no running server process that needs to be hot reloaded, composer is faster relative npm, decent typing system and built in development web server.

To make PHP a superb language(okay, a better language :-) I wish for three things.

  * Typed callable signatures
  * Function autoloading
  * Generics

Looking forward to the possibility of a jit in PHP 8.

[alexfarran]

Have you looked at Hack? It has all those features.

[fetbaffe]

Unfortunately not. Have thought about to add it to our test runners.

Sounds nice! If I understand correctly, the setup is a bit more complicated.