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Last I checked, PHP was open source. Why don't you go and do this for the "lazy devs" if it bugs you so much.


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I have to wonder why people are so excited about a PHP compiler when there's been an open-source one out that runs on top of the IBM Java JIT for a while. http://www.projectzero.org/

Let me guess, you're a PHP developer.

You’re a PHP developer, I’m sure this stuff must seem very difficult to you.

But it's PHP. sigh

That is by far one of the worst solutions I've heard to the problem. I really feel bad for anyone who is hired to work on your code and told that it was written in PHP, only to look at a compiler generated mess.

Please tell me you're joking.


I usually try to be respectful of anybody making the effort of publishing open source code, but I'm getting pretty tired of you spamming your CMS everywhere I look.

Especially since it is made up of exactly the same kind of procedural spaghetti that makes WordPress such a joy to work with... "clean php5.3+" my ass.


Thanks for the heads up. I use PHP only to hack together quick side projects... but yet another reason it sucks ;(

PHP developers!

I'll see myself out.


And WordPress, drupal and honestly every other php project custom or open source.

PHP needs to go away.


Not the source code for PHP itself, though.

then take my upvote, I agree 100%, I'm saying exactly this to many people and they just roll their eyes (to be fair I don't use PHP anymore but I certainly don't share the despect which others have)

fun thing I also wanted to add a point about documentation but you did it yourself, life is fun sometimes :)


Why's it being rewritten? Looks like it's still PHP as well.

saw this and immediately upvoted b/c i really want something a lot like this.

went to github and realized i won't use it b/c it's implemented in PHP, i probably don't want exactly what this is, and i don't want to edit/debug PHP (not on my own time, anyway).

is that myopic? anyway, that was my honest, off-the-cuff response to the post.


I love PHP but I hate the code in this repo.

I have no huge grudge against PHP, but I'd also like really to see an answer to this.

I have no huge grudge against PHP, but I'd also like really to see an answer to this.

> We have this public API that we're not exactly sure how it works version to version, and, oh, we've just changed our parsing code so if it breaks your stuff then tough shit because we're a bunch of amateurs.

Well that's pretty much PHP in a nutshell, no news there.


Yeah, I'm getting the feeling that the OP has no idea of PHP frameworks (or anything that has happened with PHP in the last 5+ years for that matter), and prefers to throw the baby out with the bathwater because of this.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, I laughed - and I'm a PHP developer.
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