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I don't know about productivity, if you look at the side-by-side comparisons, the savings are generally one or two lines at most. There's nothing in there that

I don't know about productivity, if you look at the side-by-side comparisons, the savings are generally one or two lines at most. There's nothing in there that actually helps with the idiosyncrasies of PHP -- for example, returning a sane default when accessing nonexistent array elements. Also, PHP 5.4 already has the JS-style array notation. And I really have to wonder about the enforced breaks in their implementation of switch/case, because there are times when you do want to fall through to the next case.

lukeholder 13y ago
Its too early to judge that it makes no improvements, because it does not claim to yet! It currently is only slightly reducing the weight of the code - it doesn't even support classes yet! I am sure if it matured, you would start to identify way in which it could improve PHP by hiding PHP gotchyas, and doing all the boilerplate to get around them.