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“After PHP 6, I think that’s it for PHP.” Those words were spoken to me by my boss while we were having lunch at the crazy-busy sushi buffet restaurant near the office. I choked a bit on my food. After all, my boss is a former Zend employee and utterly competent PHP programmer. “There’s no innovation going on in the language.” “Well, what sort of innovation do you think Rasmus and the boys should be doing?” I asked him. “It’s not about the language, because there is lots to like. It’s the tools. Ever watch a .Net programmer build something? Visual Studio is the best tool around for building applications. Things like Zend Studio and Komodo are 10 years behind. You’re struggling with the interface for that playlist editor, right? There should be drag-and-drop interface tools that integrate with your PHP code. Your friends from ActiveState should be trying to one-up Visual Studio, not building tools for script kiddies.”