Except that in PHP type declaration mismatches are actually errors... They aren't just "documentation" to be used by static analyzers.
And smoke Python in performance.
I would rather see both teams working together for one single language :) I wrote a little about it here http://goo.gl/XFR2Xt
That will never happen.
I know, but... "I just think those pointless discussions of languageA vs LanguageB are infinite loops and languageA + LanguageB would make both sides evolve faster and the whole community would gain in the end."
Once upon a time it was Atari/Amiga and before that it was a bunch of other smaller computers... Now it's languages and the arguments sounds just the same.