I'm a big proponent of using PHP where it's appropriate, and I've found lots of good usecases for it. But suggesting that writing good PHP implies using a diff

I'm a big proponent of using PHP where it's appropriate, and I've found lots of good usecases for it. But suggesting that writing good PHP implies using a different runtime and different language, why not go to a different strictly typed C-like language altogether, like Java? It's certainly maintained better.