Your argument for PHP isn't really great. Both RoR and Python have a huge community, with more than enough people who are willing to help. If you want to be fu

Your argument for PHP isn't really great. Both RoR and Python have a huge community, with more than enough people who are willing to help. If you want to be future-proof, I would skip PHP. It's getting used less and less, and also, RoR and Python are both much cleaner. Take a look at the 2 and pick one, actually it doesn't really matter, because once you're good at one of em, it'll be a lot easier to learn something else. RE: your remark about being hireable, I think it doesn't make a big difference either. Clients might be asking for PHP, but unless they want to use Wordpress, try to convince them you can build them the same in another language, in less time and with a better result. If they're still clinging to PHP you might want to ask yourself if it's really gonna be much fun working for them. Oh and if you want to be really trendy, ignore all of this and look into node.js ;)