Over the years I have come to notice that programming languages are, most of the time, not important at all. However, tooling and ecosystem around a language is

Over the years I have come to notice that programming languages are, most of the time, not important at all. However, tooling and ecosystem around a language is. Turns out, yes, PHP is not a very elegant language and there is still quite a bit of phpclasses style gunk out there to be found. But, PHP has a fantastic mature ecosystem. Projects such as Symfony, Doctrine, Composer, The PHP League and PHP The Right Way, to name but a few, are all great examples of this. To me, for building business type CRUD apps, PHP is still the most productive.