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> It's just that I wished that new releases could have more interesting things to say besides "it's not as crappy as it used to be".

I don't think there are many people in PHP's orbit who want it to be a better Python, or a better Perl/Ruby/JavaScript.

PHP was written to be a good language for average web development, and I think that's where it will always shine. I'm perfectly happy with a gradual process of making it less crappy.

Having said that, I'd love some of Hack's features (e.g. reified generics, proper list/dict primitives) to make it into PHP.