There maybe something interesting in it for the PHP-Pros around here: 26 Ways to Show that PHP Can Be Better Than PHP Features that PHP does not have yet: 1. Aspect Oriented Programming 2. Annotations 3. Extended class meta-data beyond reflection 4. Prototype variables like in JavaScript 5. Dynamically extend class with plugins 6. Friend or package access classes 7. Class generics (templates) 8. Turn errors into exceptions 9. Introspection of private functions and variables 10. Alternative auto-loading of classes 11. Running multiple scripts in parallel 12. Named parameters 13. Running unaudited PHP code in a sandbox 14. Class composition 15. Deferred execution of long tasks 16. Satisfy needless dependencies with dummy interfaces 17. Comparable interface 18. Iterable interface Features that PHP already has: 19. Executing code automatically when exiting a function 20. Class destructors 21. Namespaces 22. Overloading 23. Closures 24. Function parameter type checking 25. Mixing the functionality of different classes 26. Serializing objects that reference each other