While I can appreciate the good intentions of the developers, for me, this just screams waste of effort. I can't see a way that this will ever gain widespread acceptance.
From what I understand this targets developers who:
A) Come from a javascript background
and
B) Want to deploy on cheap hosters where node isn't available?
and
C) Don't care about performance and don't mind the additional complexity of the transpiler.
Can this even leverage the enormous PHP ecosystem? ie, composer, https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle, https://github.com/thephpleague/flysystem, etc.
From what I understand this targets developers who: A) Come from a javascript background and B) Want to deploy on cheap hosters where node isn't available? and C) Don't care about performance and don't mind the additional complexity of the transpiler.
Seems like a pretty small target audience.