I had a bit of a laugh as I read this. I realized that PHP is my go to language for very simple side projects. I have one that is left alive. It runs the schedu

I had a bit of a laugh as I read this. I realized that PHP is my go to language for very simple side projects. I have one that is left alive. It runs the scheduling of greeters for a group I'm part of. Every week we have two people stand at the door to greet new people and help them find their way in. We used to have a spreadsheet that managed it but I kept forgetting to update it and send it out. There were also some rules that made it tricky. Like you don't want people to repeat too often, you want spouses to be on the door together and a few other boring details that made the spreadsheet a chore. One weekend I got sick of that and threw together a tiny website that automates the entire process. My tool of choice was PHP because it takes no effort to get started. TBH it was a great choice for such a simple tool. It's been running for five years and has easily paid off the time it took to build. I guess I agree with you more than I realized.