It would be nuts to consider starting a brand new, dependency-free project in PHP today for all these reasons and more. If the reason for doing that is "all I

It would be nuts to consider starting a brand new, dependency-free project in PHP today for all these reasons and more. If the reason for doing that is "all I know is php", well, now you have two problems. That said, my primary language is PHP and I've written a whole lot of it over the last few years. I can report back that the choice of language is somewhere around the 37th most important factor in the end result. Whatever its flaws, they just don't have that strong of an impact in reality.