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Those examples aren't good differentiators between PHPUnit and Phake. And unfortunately, despite how goot Composer it, it just adds another package management system into the mix. GitHub has ended up being the best package manager PHP could really ask for.

I kind of view the native PHP development server as getting featural parity with Rails and Django. But it seems like that's a major gripe for developers who are averse to working with Apache or Nginx for being too complex.

I'm very excited for traits as a feature. This is when we get into real language features other, more prestigious or "hot" web development languages actually have that PHP lacks. These result in true architectural deficiencies requiring annoying hacks to accommodate.

In the end, PHP itself benefits most from expanding its capacities as a logical formalism. Tools are great, but they're also a lot less easier to get right.