Did you read that? > If you're writing a program that only has to do something very simple, like number crunching or bit manipulation, you may as well use a le

Did you read that? > If you're writing a program that only has to do something very simple, like number crunching or bit manipulation, you may as well use a less abstract language, especially since it may be slightly faster. In your opinion, what percentage of web applications do you think are non-trivial? And for what it’s worth, nobody chooses PHP because of the language. That’s not the selling point. The selling point is the development paradigm/runtime. It’s dead simple. I recently started a small web project using the SAFE stack: https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/quickstart/ https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/quickstart/ I urge you to follow that QuickStart yourself (it only takes a minute or two). Assuming you were actually able to build the project, now, look at your project structure. How many directories do you have (11)? How many files (15510)? Think about how much knowledge is required to understand what’s going on (if you’ve never touched F# you are probably lost). What does this QuickStart app do? It is, I kid you not, a “Todo list”! I could write an almost exact clone of this app using PHP in exactly 1 file. No configuration scripts. No build suite. No 3rd-party packages. No CLI commands. Just 1 PHP file. Thats why people choose PHP.