This is going to sound like I'm trolling, but: why not just use Ruby?
Like many Ruby developers, I left PHP because I saw the kind of stagnation the author describes at the beginning of this article. I saw lots of good ideas originating and flourishing in the Ruby world, and sometimes trickling back to PHP. I saw a more well-thought-out language that seemed worthy of all that attention. So I hopped.
The libraries and library management tools and frameworks available to me now are awesome. Ruby itself is getting faster all the time. Is there really any reason left to stick with PHP other than inertia? (I don't mean that dismissively; if you have a massive existing code base, that's real inertia and changing would be a tall order.)
You can substitute Python or Node or whatever for Ruby here, but my point is: why fight the uphill battle to bring good tools to a language when other languages already have them?
Like many Ruby developers, I left PHP because I saw the kind of stagnation the author describes at the beginning of this article. I saw lots of good ideas originating and flourishing in the Ruby world, and sometimes trickling back to PHP. I saw a more well-thought-out language that seemed worthy of all that attention. So I hopped.
The libraries and library management tools and frameworks available to me now are awesome. Ruby itself is getting faster all the time. Is there really any reason left to stick with PHP other than inertia? (I don't mean that dismissively; if you have a massive existing code base, that's real inertia and changing would be a tall order.)
You can substitute Python or Node or whatever for Ruby here, but my point is: why fight the uphill battle to bring good tools to a language when other languages already have them?