[olemartinorg]

Not really, I think. It was exactly as I expected.

I once attended a mini-conference where he did a talk about PHP history. After the talk, someone asked a question about strict typing. Rasmus really hold on to the web not having types (just passing strings, as have been pointed out in other comments here). I remember him saying something like "when the web have strict types, PHP will have it too".

[Danack]

This is actually quite revealing. Some people think that PHP is just used for the same small web pages it was used for 15 years ago.

Other people would like to use PHP more as a general computing language.

Having optional types takes nothing away from using PHP for simple web pages, but does make it easier to right analyzably correct programs.

The fact that the founder of a language doesn't want to see it grow is quite depressing.

[marrs]

He doesn't want this particular feature. Considering the amount that PHP has grown, he obviously does want it to grow.