> I'm sure Ruby, Node and Go are super duper awesome in a lot of academic ways I find Hacker News loves PHP in comparison to most places developers hang out. M

> I'm sure Ruby, Node and Go are super duper awesome in a lot of academic ways I find Hacker News loves PHP in comparison to most places developers hang out. Mostly because of the prevalence of the kind of anti-intellectualism on display in your comment. Some of us have used PHP for years AND many other languages and have a basis for comparison.