if I could lock off a whole load of php language features it would actually be nice to work in. fuck off super globals, and you may have *a little* dynamic typing (as a treat)
though actually knowing what gave rise to the language it is today, there would always be an itch in the back of my brain worrying that the runtime itself is written like a mile long loop of spaghetti
hah I just remembered my plan to create a CGO binding to PHP source's JSON encode/decode funcs for perfect PHP equivalent JSON handling. still mildly tempted, just because
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
