Between composer and symfony and php 7 I would say PHP is ahead of both ruby and python communities in terms of code quality, perfomance and ease of deployment.

Between composer and symfony and php 7 I would say PHP is ahead of both ruby and python communities in terms of code quality, perfomance and ease of deployment. There are some minor drawbacks in the core language, nothing compared to the python 2/3 split and all the virtualenv and packaging mess, and the sub-par arhitecture of rails (as far as i heard). Mind you this is limited to web development, php does not shine in any other field. People FTPing their code to a server or writing code in pure (probably sub-optimally designed) PHP beyond trivial scripts and web pages are not representative of the PHP community at all. At least not in europe.