Also, and I say this as someone who has years of experience programming in multiple languages including PHP--It's a logical fallacy to say just because most peo

Also, and I say this as someone who has years of experience programming in multiple languages including PHP--It's a logical fallacy to say just because most people do something it is the correct course of action to take. This is a logical fallacy known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or an "appeal to common practice". PHP is probably fine for many of the things the author mentioned particularly brochure, content-based, sites, blogs, portfolios etc... (although increasingly using static based sites hosted from s3 or other static host seems to make more sense, in terms of cost and performance.) Then there is a whole host of other problem domains where PHP does not make sense as a technology choice, Data Science, Graphics, Comms/Messaging, Systems programming. Let's choose the right tool for the job. What's the old adage about "when all you have is a hammer you treat every job as a nail."