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The problem is most people building meaningful programs are not people with "just a quick job to do". For those people, having abstractions available allows the

The problem is most people building meaningful programs are not people with "just a quick job to do". For those people, having abstractions available allows them to focus on the harder problems that actually matter, instead of constantly reinventing the wheel. The mental energy is probably not worth it if you are just building a blog for yourself, but in that case, the mental energy of learning PHP is not worth it either. If the job is really that quick, why are you using dynamically generated content in the first place? HTML one-off's are the most straight forward solution. On the other hand, if you want to build a bulletproof web application, you should probably use powerful tools, figure them out once, and then actually solve your problem.

wvenable 16y ago
> the mental energy of learning PHP is not worth it either You probably already know PHP. It's so much like many other languages and it doesn't require much knowledge to get started. Many of the "gotchas" about PHP are more academic than practical and if you are ignorant about these things then you are more likely to do it right. Some of the horrible stuff, like huge body of non-namespaced functions, is pretty easy to search though and then use without a lot of knowledge overhead. I actually write very large business web applications in PHP. Crazy? Maybe. There is a bit of a sunk cost here, when the app was started most other solutions were pretty immature. However even with potentially "better" options now, PHP isn't going to burn down the house.