PHP was seductive, for me at least. I wrote my first startup in PHP - No Smarty, no Cake, no Pear, just PHP. And it worked! PHP leads the developer down the

PHP was seductive, for me at least. I wrote my first startup in PHP - No Smarty, no Cake, no Pear, just PHP. And it worked! PHP leads the developer down the easy path then locks them into a big codebase. Yes, it has it's problems, but in the end it works or can be trained to work. That said, I'm seriously thinking of Python/Django or Rails for my next project.