I'm hearing a lot of praise for PHP frameworks such as Laravel, but I'm not sure PHP should strive to become more like RoR and Node.js. Rather, PHP's unique sel

I'm hearing a lot of praise for PHP frameworks such as Laravel, but I'm not sure PHP should strive to become more like RoR and Node.js. Rather, PHP's unique selling point, for me anyway, is its use as embedded language in otherwise static HTML pages via SGMLish processing instructions (`<?php ...>`), and I think there's nothing wrong with that even with the current preference towards Ajax and (micro)services. It's just that embedded PHP did such an incredibly poor job (like, not even an attempt) of preventing injection attacks despite SGML having very strong mechanisms for context-dependent escaping and markup validation. Which has given PHP its bad rep as a botnet/DDOS vector, and deservedly so since this has become a long-standing problem for PHP and non-PHP sites alike.