Significant performance improvements, generators, finally statement, the bundled opcache, variadics, constant scalar expressions and many other new and cool things are available in PHP 5.5 and in the upcoming 5.6 release. All fun new toys. But, as an industry, are we just playing with our toys, or are we doing something worthwhile? https://joind.in/11205 http://talks.php.net/phptour14