I think this type of approach will never stick with PHP community (at least with the "serious" developers). This hurts so many principles and directions that P

I think this type of approach will never stick with PHP community (at least with the "serious" developers). This hurts so many principles and directions that PHP community is FINALLY diving into, like SOLID and stuff. Accepting simple things like strings are not objects is the way to improve how PHP devs build their stuff and start focusing on important things like defining de-facto libraries and joining forces to make them the best and most flexible available. Don't get me wrong, the idea is pretty good (even if it's a simple try to mask procedural PHP functions)... but it seems like a swiss knife in the end.