"We wish Facebook had made this project open, as we're sure many PHP developers would concur that the efforts <i>would have been much swifter</i> and more beneficial to the public had more folks and a larger team been involved from the outset."<p>Considering the uproar generated by introducing something like namespaces into PHP, I strongly suspect the opposite of the bit in italics to be true. In fact, that's possibly why they did it this way.