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Very excited to play with this. While I know many poo-poo PHP, it still is a pretty decent gateway language.

If these type of innovations introduce hobby programmers into more professional practices and concepts, I'm all for it.

Well, it's been poo-pooed for obvious reasons (like Javascript) but those are the languages that are getting all the love in the end, so maybe I should stop programming in a language that I find beautiful (Ruby) and go with the flow.

Yes, I'm slightly bitter :/

You should develop in whatever you love. It's a great thing to know multiple languages, though.

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