Being a 20+ years C# .NET developer I have to use PHP for some projects since several years. This year much more often than ever before.
As much as I "hate" the language/libraries, I am so excited about the more recent versions of PHP that go in the right direction (in my opinion). RFCs like the Property Hooks makes it so much easier to write C# like code and have less to type.
So in my opinion, moving forward in improving PHP should go at an ever increasing speed.
Thank you very much for your efforts.