Five recent PHP improvements

I believe what the author is actually trying to imply here is that in 2013 the PHP community got behind a number of different projects (PSR and Composer/Packagist) and unit testing became a defacto part of developing with PHP.

In my opinion as a PHP developer, I feel like PHP grew up a lot last year and we (as a community) ended on a high.

Hopefully 2014 will see developers creating framework-agnostic packages/libraries which the big PHP projects like WordPress and MediaWiki can use to improve their core code (Joomla has already started this). In addition there are movements to get shared hosts to upgrade their PHP installs and get people onto PHP 5.4+ installations.

Thanks for the post.