PHP is reliable and sturdy. It's also really good. I have some experience with other languages. I cannot think of any other that is "better" in the same domain

PHP is reliable and sturdy. It's also really good. I have some experience with other languages. I cannot think of any other that is "better" in the same domain. (Bash or F# are "better" but in a different domain). Javascript has a lot of things I love, and I wish PHP would copy. But I rely on my Nginx/PHP pages more than on my Node/JS pages, and after a while I realized that PHP made better decisions, overall, for back-end. I have a love/hate relationship with Python (I like the indents; I don't like the virtual env, etc. unpopular views) but PHP is faster, has much more ready to work without hassle, and borks far less.