I asked GPT-4 what top 5 improvements it would make to the PHP language to make it more competitive

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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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  1. abrouter

    Main ABRouter product repository that contains docker-compose file and orchestrates the project containers.

    Doing A/B testing at the reverse-proxy level is just one way - a pretty niche one, too - of doing A/B testing. Since we're in /r/PHP, here is a link to ABRouter - a self hosted, open source tool that has nothing to do with a reverse proxy.

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. Functional PHP

    Primitives for functional programming in PHP

    A lot of this can be handled in userland. For examples libraries such as https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php/blob/main/docs/functional-php.md handle a lot of this.

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