Good. PHP developers are being forced to meet a minimum standard of competence that the rest of the programming world met years ago. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.<p>And I say that as a PHP developer who spent the majority of his time working through FTP and a text editor, manually dealing with dependencies, installing from ZIP files, dealing with the peculiarities of hand-rolled autoloaders and module systems. Drag them all into the harsh light of modernity.<p>And by &quot;modernity&quot; I mean &quot;the modernity of thirty years ago,&quot; but nevertheless. Given the choice between sane dependency management in PHP and not learning the command line <i>learn the command line.</i>