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Its just a discussion and my personal opinion i'm sharing.

Its hn, i think its reasonable to discuss asthetics of langauges?

But yes the history of PHP is murky and i do believe, that a few small changes could have big advantages for PHP and because PHP was one of my first languages and i also developed for it for a few years, i do have some type of connection to it.

Just imagine having a more community / sig driven approach defining a spec first, than having a reference implementation and opening it up to others.

And a PHP base rework would also help. Rethinking the architecture and code, cleaning it up and fixing issues which are still there because of it like unicode support.