One thing PHP has going for it is its ubiquity. Despite all its problems, its an accessible, server side scripting language. Slash looks really cool for small, easy projects that PHP would be good for. In fact it looks better. But, it doesn't have PHP's ubiquity. I think it'd probably have to be 10x better to overcome the ubiquity problems. Maybe it is. How easy is it to install? (sorry if that was covered somewhere on the site)?