On SitePoints's PHP Blog today, there's a new post that shares some opinions on the "Backwards Compatibility Break" that came up this week.

Recent events have brought about PHP’s biggest PR disaster to date, with yet more backward-compatibility bugs being marked bogus and such helpful advice from PHP’s inner circle as "…just stfu, okay?".

This is the latest in a trend that is raising the ire of many of PHP’s brightest developers and casts a worrying shadow over the future of PHP as a serious web application platform. There appears to be a noticeable exodus from the skilled top ranks of PHP developers to other community driven languages (Python, Ruby et al) in recent months. What will the future PHP landscape be like if/when the Marcus’ say enough is enough?

I hadn't really noticed the exodus that he's mentioning here, but the comment about a possible push of PHP towards more commercial applcations is definitely interesting...