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Seems strange to remove it when Javascript has introduced it with backtick strings like:

`words ${var} more words`

I thought we would start seeing more usage of this in PHP to make things more consistent.

The ${var} syntax is inconsistent with PHP’s own syntax though. Variables are normally referenced with a leading dollar sign, like $var, so if you wanted to make it look like template strings in JS it’d be ${$var} which is over complicated.

>I've never seen it used in the wild

I imagine it might crop up for people that also use Perl, since that would be more common there, like:

$foo="abc${var}def";

bash also uses the same syntax, and I've probably used it before for that reason.

Interesting that one developer voted no (out of 32 developers in total). Wonder what the reasoning was? Seems like a change with small impact and reduced amount of code to maintain, so not lots of drawbacks.