I really like the that you don't need a templating language on top of it, just use shorthand php syntax instead. I also find that developmemt time is quite fas

I really like the that you don't need a templating language on top of it, just use shorthand php syntax instead. I also find that developmemt time is quite fast, even without using frameworks. You probably don't need templating languages or frameworks, php makes it easy without it, it's built for it. The performance is quite good, way better that most people think. It's also easy to write functionality in C if you really need to go all out. For other stuff than web development PHP has it's downsides. It's made for building websites and in my opinion it's doing that job very well, but most other languages are general languages that works better for most other things. I think most people would enjoy PHP way more without a heavy and insanely slow framework.