Yes, it is that simple - you need some prepackaged basic stuff, like mysql connector, xml, json parser and other commonly used modules. You need dumb-easy insta

Yes, it is that simple - you need some prepackaged basic stuff, like mysql connector, xml, json parser and other commonly used modules. You need dumb-easy install and integration with web server, and you need a quite large and active community. In that case all cheap hostings will support it. PHP is coming with all distros nowadays, so newbies and managers makes a choice without thinking at all. sudo yum install php-* - that is why. btw, take the arc, add a buzzword (llvm) and easy api to write extensions with fast FFI, and it will get as much hype as clojure - llvm is better buzzword than jvm ^_^