I currently work in a PHP shop and the engineering culture here is that "you'll never need anything other than PHP". I think a lot of people take their past suc

I currently work in a PHP shop and the engineering culture here is that "you'll never need anything other than PHP". I think a lot of people take their past successes with a tool and use them to predict the future. This leads people into super specialization which is not good. When i came to this company I needed to write some data analysis code and the engineers had assumed I was going to do that in PHP with their favorite framework. I had never experienced this one tool for all mentality and I don't understand. PHP works as a tool. Laravel, Lumen, Symphony are all miles ahead of what PHP used to be in the 5.* days. But when it comes down to it I see no reason to use that tool. PHP's great benefits (edit, reload, repeat) are now provided by many languages. PHP can't participate in a lot of existing tooling (gRPC server, daemons, JIT compilers). PHP is obviously being beaten out of the top languages in the tiobe index. Juniors don't always know PHP (it's Ruby, python, and JS now). While it works, there's no reason I see to use it.