That's a great point, and you've touched on what might seem like a paradox: while the toolset is ambitious, keeping up with new PHP features is actually one of Mago's biggest strengths.

The traditional PHP tooling ecosystem relies on a dependency chain. A new syntax feature has to be implemented in a core library like nikic/PHP-Parser, then released, then adopted by tools like Psalm or PHPStan, and then finally those tools make a new release. This process can take weeks or months.

Because Mago is a single, cohesive toolchain, we control the entire stack. We can add support for new syntax across the lexer, parser, formatter, linter, and analyzer in one go.

For example:

- Mago's formatter and analyzer already have full support for the Pipe Operator (`|>`) and `clone with` from the upcoming PHP 8.5. The pipe operator was implemented across the entire toolchain in about 30 minutes, just hours after its RFC was approved. - For comparison, many existing tools are still catching up with PHP 8.4 features like Property Hooks.

This agility is a core part of the project's value proposition.