I'm impressed with the evolution of the language and the tooling around it, driven by the necessity to scale and maintain apps for big businesses. Nevertheless

I'm impressed with the evolution of the language and the tooling around it, driven by the necessity to scale and maintain apps for big businesses. Nevertheless, I would think that PHP is a hard sell for new projects and new enterprises. Unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool PHP junkie and you're bringing a team that is the same, there are a multitude of reasons why you'd want to choose a different language for web dev work.