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by musashibaka 5089 days ago
17 years old and a PHP Internals tinkerer...

Awesome work Nikita, keep it up!

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As someone who has worked with him for quite some time, all I can say is so very much agree. He blows me away left and right with his knowledge, ability and maturity (especially when it comes to code decisions). He's more senior than most developers that I know...

So very much agree, keep it up!

Yes, indeed. I was blown away when I read his about page. So many people yap about their years of knowledge and that PHP has all these problems and can be fixed this way and that way, but when told to shut up and fork the language and do it. They say "I can't, because I don't know C', yet this 17 year old is doing just that.

Kudos.

As a 16-year-old, I wonder if I should stop thinking about developing my own language (which essentially would be F#), and fork PHP myself.