While stupid people keep using blinking tags and lolcats, and while astronauts keep thinking about concurrency and monads, php will grow stronger than ever.
Astronauts need to come down to earth and help stupid people build better blinking tags for their lolcats, not push them to write lolcats in monads with concurrency.
So, whether astronauts like it or not, a simpler un-evented node.js would sell like hotcakes (because it is js, not because it is evented), while a cleaner, facelifted php will sell even more.
Fork php, use + for string concatenating, . for class members, fix haystacks and needles, add [1,2,3] and {a:1,b:2} as simple data structs, that's all lolcats need.
Learn to serve your customers, even if they are stupid.
Astronauts need to come down to earth and help stupid people build better blinking tags for their lolcats, not push them to write lolcats in monads with concurrency.
So, whether astronauts like it or not, a simpler un-evented node.js would sell like hotcakes (because it is js, not because it is evented), while a cleaner, facelifted php will sell even more.
Fork php, use + for string concatenating, . for class members, fix haystacks and needles, add [1,2,3] and {a:1,b:2} as simple data structs, that's all lolcats need.
Learn to serve your customers, even if they are stupid.