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"At the end of the day, this article is just fucking right.

The language needs to be forked; not only the source, the intent.
The language needs a vision; I never said mine, just a vision.
The intent needs to follow the vision, and the source needs to follow the intent.

There will always be people who just want to include or iterate something in an otherwise HTML file. That's just dandy, let them. We have 5.X.

To the rest of us, PHP is old, aging, yet immature; like some bizarre man-child who draws webpages. The only reason (so far as the numbers can tell me) that PHP is holding strong in the market, is because one-click-install disasters like Wordpress are at the disposal of every dog-walker and face-painter out there. I've lost confidence in PHP. I grew up on PHP, and (foolishly) learned too much from it. I've had to relearn. It wasn't fun.

Let them have Wordpress. Let them have 5.X. That's fine, that's just fine.
I'm walking away because PHP is immature. I want PHP++ (or PHP#, or PHP%, whatever)"