> But, the thing that struck me about this project and the examples is just how verbose PHP has gotten over the years. It is strikingly similar to old Java, in

> But, the thing that struck me about this project and the examples is just how verbose PHP has gotten over the years. It is strikingly similar to old Java, in terms of class definitions and the like. Something that probably hurts the language here is the lack of autoloading for functions, whereas it exists for classes, so exposing bare functions is a runtime performance penalty (their containing files must be loaded on every request, if you use Composer), which results in a preference for putting everything in a class. :/