Just willing to be as strong as OOP C++. That 's all.

There are quite a lot of things I'd like to see changed actually:

• Replace the arrow notation (->) for method calls with a dot (.)
• Replace the string concatenation (.) with a simple plus sign (+) or perhaps double plus signs (++)
• Add return type before method name (public string function getName())
• Make all native functions pure to allow for better functional programming
• Fix inconsistency like argument order of native functions as @GarnierKristen addressed

Maybe PHP simply isn't meant for me, though I use it on a daily basis for work.

• An optional type system like TypeScript and Dart has
• Consistency in naming conventions, example: htmlentities vs html_entity_decode are opposites of each other
• Consistency in the way params are passed, is it needle haystack or haystack needle, I always have to check
• A single function to do something like sorting instead of: array_multisort, arsort, asort, ksort, krsort, natsort, natcasesort, sort, rsort, uasort, uksort, usort
• Better consistency between the OO way of doing things and the normal way of doing things, currently it's completely different.
• Being able to run threads in the background
• A proper threading model
• Better error logging - for example I find it horrible that PHP just dumps the error to the screen or ever
• no more white screens
• operator overloading, having to use dot to concatenate strings is just stupid and when using a plus sign, strange things happen
• many more !!!

I left PHP due to the inconsistencies and some of these issues.

More constancy.

For example : array_map( callable, $array ) & array_filter($array, callable).

There is tons of this in php, and even more odd names. It's definitely the thing that i would change, to have a way better developer experience.

More typestrong parameters