[damagednoob]

The evolution of PHP has shown the difference that having engaged stewards of the language can make. Saw a list of quotes[1] from Rasmus Ledorf which I think explains it's stagnation. As someone who used to sneer at the language, modern PHP doesn't look out of place among Ruby, Python, etc.

https://mobile.twitter.com/woketopus/status/1447150924846313...

[tyingq]

I don't know how this really played out internally, but from the outside it feels like Hack/HHVM kicked the PHP core team in the gut and inspired them to improve things.