I am a die-hard advocate of the Phalcon approach to this problem, which is to deliver the framework as a PHP extension. It requires slightly more admin experience to get it setup, but boy is it fast!
I know a couple of people that went out of their way to have the yen backslash on their PC. It certainly is charming in a way. Kind of like how email addresses used to be written like:
I share some similar sentiments with the author and I developed a personal note-taking system which has automatic linking based on the collocational word. You can think of it as sort of like an inverted mind mapping software.
I think a shortcoming of my software and other people’s note-taking software is poor integration of time.. if I could modify my system so I could in effect make some commentary of the changes in the word files I think that would be a much more productive process than simply being able to visualise the changes as a static thing.
modern PHP? I would contend the OP is still a hipster, but at least he's pointing out that fashionable programming is really toxic for the industry as a whole. Boring technology is good because the ordinary, standard thing is meant to be exactly that, ordinary and standard. Leave the breaking changes, feature churn, evangelising, endlessly-revised howto articles, missing/outdated documentation, etc. where it belongs -- in the "innovative" software.
By "compose in both directions" you mean like arithmetic operators like + and * ? No doubt it is useful to have built-in operators for array operations if you have to do a lot of array operations.
Indeed, I would say that even now the extant textboard and irc users are still attempting to push the boundaries of sophisticated stupidity and they have become experts at it.
In the world of real advancements in terminal development, Plan 9 had come up with Blit and drawterm in the 90's -- so why haven't we made it back to there yet? the answer mostly lies in the lack of simple drawing primitives in X, the TTY interfaces, etc. People like this warp.dev guy come along every few months and poo-poo everything because secretly they do not want to learn it (and neither do we, really!). But nobody really comes along and tries to fix the termcap-brained mindset we still have when considering terminal design. It seems like after everyone got 256-colour and 24-bit colour support we have just accepted the state of things.
