For me, PHP is still ideal developer experience, even after a decade of working with it. The language has evolved tastefully without breaking away from the pas

For me, PHP is still ideal developer experience, even after a decade of working with it. The language has evolved tastefully without breaking away from the past in drastic(pythonic) ways. Frameworks like Laravel still continue to evolve in a rapid pace than its contemporaries in other languages, bringing in support for every new advancement like webpack, OAuth, etc. Text editor support is also rapidly accelerating with LSP as a part of the core runtime. PHPStorm is still a beast of an IDE. Composer is in many ways an ideal package manager, a cross between the ease of bundler and local package scoping of npm. The runtime evolves at a rapid pace, with performance improvements in every release and the upcoming JIT. Most importantly, the development and deployment story of PHP is still easy as ever. Unlike other modern stacks that require arcane version manager, virtual environments, docker layers, etc, the LAMP stack is still the one script environment creator that requires nothing more than a working Linux distro. The WAMP one click installer still works on Windows without any Subsystems.