What I find interesting about all this debates about programming languages is that most of the time people fail to remember that they are just that "languages".

What I find interesting about all this debates about programming languages is that most of the time people fail to remember that they are just that "languages"... Each one has its strong points and flawns, at the end of the day what truly matters is how competent you are at expresing on them and carrying out your goals. For decades people have been complaining about Php, and how afwul it is, yet still, for decades successful projects have raised (and still do) having Php as its core, just today there 2 posts on the front-page about big companies (Slack, Dailymotion) talking about their Php codebase... The argument that due the huge volume of programmers using it, it is "bound to" return a few success cases here and there is BS... if that were true we would be flooded about news about how X and Y company succeed "thanks to" using Python, Java or whatever language you deem as "superior", but that doesn't happen... because companies don't suceed "in spite of" Php, they suceed "with" Php, in the same way companies don't suceed "thanks to" X or Y language but "with" them. When people set to built a piece of sotware they don't have in mind "I wan't to build the most technically perfect code base" or "I want to build the fastest piece of software" because nobody writes software for the sake of it, everyone has a goal... they want to build "a messaging app for teams" or a "video-sharing website" and the best programming language for that, is whichever enables them to do so on the way they need it, with the resources they have, and within the timeframe they set. And rant as much as you wish, but Php remains king about doing exactly that "enabling people".