"The bit about dependencies is most interesting to me. In PHP, the problem of dependencies is offloaded to Apache, and by extension the server host. PEAR helps a lot, but even that’s not guaranteed to be available everywhere."
Most modern PHP projects (PHP 5.3+) are using namespaces, autoloaders, and Composer to handle dependencies.
Most modern PHP projects (PHP 5.3+) are using namespaces, autoloaders, and Composer to handle dependencies.
http://getcomposer.org/