Stuff like composer, Silex/Symfony2, the addition of closures, the speed of new versions + OpCode caching make PHP pretty usable. Thinking LAMP as a whole - th

Stuff like composer, Silex/Symfony2, the addition of closures, the speed of new versions + OpCode caching make PHP pretty usable. Thinking LAMP as a whole - the speed of new versions of MySQL (5.6, 5.7) and the Percona branch are also pretty sweet.