Feedback wanted: new PHP template engine

Hi all,

The last few months I've worked on making a template engine because
the ones out there didn't serve my needs. I guess everybody knows
Smarty and has an opinion on it; I like many things about it, but
dislike many others. The thing I made is called 'Farty' (sorry, I suck
at names) and is in many ways a simpler version of Smarty. It keeps
the good (compiling to php files, clean syntax) and fixes the bad
(having to learn a new language, limited flexibility). I also added
some pretty nifty extensibility features, and I even wrote some docs!
I believe that right now it's just about as powerful as Smarty except
for some missing pre-packaged template functions - otherwise it should
be pretty mature already.

Anyway, I've hesitated for a while because that's the shy guy I am,
but I'd really want some feedback on it now, and see if the PHP
community thinks that this is a project work continuing (and given a
better name, maybe).

As such, any comments, good or bad, either here or on the website,
will be more than appreciated.

The URL is http://e.teeselink.nl/farty

Any feedback is very appreciated!
.

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