I used to concede that PHP is appropriate for little scripts, but I changed my mind over time, because so few of those scripts stay "little". Where is the line

I used to concede that PHP is appropriate for little scripts, but I changed my mind over time, because so few of those scripts stay "little". Where is the line drawn? Do we find we need a new feature one day, decide that's enough to tip the scale, and set out to rewrite the thing—wasting all the time purportedly saved by writing it in PHP in the first place? We're lazy, so probably not. I tried writing a little one-off Python thing in Flask last year and was actually surprised by how little effort it took. I spent more time learning Flask (and Flask is really, really simple) than I did actually deploying the thing to a VPS with spare cycles. It could stand to be slightly more turnkey, but running a tiny app server isn't nearly the nightmare it's made out to be.