he cites performance as the main reason why he hates frameworks, but it seems like a compiled php module that implements an mvc framework would gain performance

he cites performance as the main reason why he hates frameworks, but it seems like a compiled php module that implements an mvc framework would gain performance and put the "web development back into the language", so to speak. creating a new language is not the answer. that will work up until the day you need to do something beyond tying a database to an html form, like process images or encrypt files or talk to a weird database that isn't mysql. php, ruby, and python have a ton of modules and 3rd party libraries that can be tossed in to accomplish a lot of things.