Discussion on: Which mainstream programming language has the ugliest syntax?

Especially if you look at more modern PHP. I really like Laravel's code style.

For non-PHP developers, a few syntax niceties:

1. All variables have a $ prefix. So $post = getPost($id).
2. Accessing class properties (non-static) is done via an arrow: $request->has('name')
3. Accessing static properties is done via :: (by far my favorite). Route::get('/api/posts', function() {});

I also like PHP namespacing:

namespace Vendor\Lib\Class;

and accessing the namespace:

use Vendor\Lib\Class;