one thing I thing that go me excited is the talk of deconstructors in the new version. PHP is on its way to becoming a fully fledge OOP language 😃
With GTK out there (only got my teeth into it recently), hopefully in the near future ZEND (or others) will release a visual studio type application where we can build PHP destop application with ease as we would with our big brother visual C++
Food for mind, is a gold mine insight!