New language on top of PHP?

Question

I\'m a PHP developer. I like PHP! It is a really good language if you know how to use it, but I know it allows very bad design sometimes.

It reminds me of JavaScript whi

Answer 1

The more I am thinking about this, the more irrealistic it sounds. The reason is simple: There actually are such language proprocessors already. Two of them (though not using PHP as implementation, only as compilation target) can be found here. But simply nobody uses them.

Yes, if the compiler itself were written in PHP, probably more people would use it. But I really can't see a way how to get this popular enough to be worth the work.

Another big problem is, that people mostly are used to their awesome code-highlighting, code-completing, code-inspecting IDE. Without getting IDE support probably merely anybody will use it (and IDE support can only be obtained by having many people use it...)

Thoughts?