I appreciate you playing devil's advocate on this, but the argument just does not hold water, the masses have it right. Throwing away 5 years experience of you

I appreciate you playing devil's advocate on this, but the argument just does not hold water, the masses have it right. Throwing away 5 years experience of your founding team, and throwing in a new language for everyone to learn is simply insanity. Doing so just for the sexiness of the new language makes it doubly so. Nitpick: Why assume PHP is not a "modern" language? Last time I checked interpreted, typeless, trash collected languages were pretty modern. Nitpick 2: Why should execution speed benchmarks matter? In that case, write everything in assembler. I'm not being facetious, execution speed is far down in the list of priorities.