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Re:Coming Soon in HHVM by aikah on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @09:12PM (#9066622)
Most languages aren't templating languages at first place. PHP was saved because it decided to look like Java,which neither Ruby or Python do,which allows writing these huge codebases like Doctrine or Symfony.

I personnally started coding with Actionscript 3, I wish PHP looked exactly like that,while keeping the scripting and the execution model.

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Re:Coming Soon in HHVM by RussianCow on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @10:51PM (#9066876)
> PHP was saved because it decided to look like Java,which neither Ruby or Python do,which allows writing these huge codebases like Doctrine or Symfony.

What does looking like Java have to do with being able to write huge codebases? Both Python and Ruby have libraries just as big as (or bigger than) Doctrine and Symfony.

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Re:Coming Soon in HHVM by aikah on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @09:55AM (#9068790)
> What does looking like Java have to do with being able to write huge codebases? Both Python and Ruby have libraries just as big as (or bigger than) Doctrine and Symfony.

which ones?you didn't name them.

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Re:Coming Soon in HHVM by RussianCow on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:09AM (#9069205)
Django and Rails, to name just two open source projects, and I've seen proprietary Python apps with hundreds of thousands of lines of code. You still haven't said how PHP allows you to write bigger codebases than Python or Ruby, and what that has to do with looking like Java.
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