> wherever you're professionally going, PHP is <probably> not the language you'd like to use anyway. So why use it? Unless you're doing web development. Outsid

> wherever you're professionally going, PHP is <probably> not the language you'd like to use anyway. So why use it? Unless you're doing web development. Outside of the HN bubble, there's still a very active segment of the software industry that uses PHP. Yeah, it's not a "cool" language or whatever, but experienced PHP developers can churn out solid work very quickly. I made pretty good money as a PHP developer for a lot of years - you would not believe the places that this language gets used (and in what ways). "Dying business" is definitely not how I'd describe my past employers.