[nologic01]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound dismissive (much less shallow!) about php. In fact I have great admiration for projects from wikipedia, to wordpress, moodle, matomo, you name it, before even talking about the modern php landscape you mention. In my book what you achieve is far more important than how you achieve it.

Crockford is arguing about "clean starts" and that is fine but the thrust of my comment that this will be driven by business models, not so much by tools. Sometimes tools are enablers of new things, so there is a chicken-and-egg aspect to it.

So we have all these ecosystems that were once flourishing but are now in a stationary state because the business models are in stationary state. There is a variety of tools that are good enough to get the current "job" done, but its not clear what will bring us to the next phase...