Well I suppose this is very early days for the project, and syntax improvements have not been added as yet, but I see this as a worth-wild exercise if it does have some influence over php in the future like coffeescript did to the javascript world.

I think you judging it on a premature release. Maybe he is looking for your suggestions before going down the improvement path.

Also, they missed out on fixing possibly the second* silliest part of PHP: horrible inner functions.

* Edit: I just remembered PHP's "barewords".