You remember when HHVM / hack came out from Facebook? Besides the fact that it was quite a dick move from Facebook to bring it out and then stop supporting it, it pushed PHP to take performance temporarily serious and there was so much air in it.

But the standard library is still inconsistent as hell, type system is still garbage especially mixxing strict and non strict.

The concurrency implementation? Has to be fixed again by frameworks.

And yeah i mean the critisism of my original comment stands as well and thats just an eye sore.