I'm a Grails developer but when friends asked me to develop their web site for an association, I had to learn PHP. Why? Economic reasons! Web hosting pricing ar

I'm a Grails developer but when friends asked me to develop their web site for an association, I had to learn PHP. Why? Economic reasons! Web hosting pricing are divided by three (3$ vs 9$) between PHP and Grails/JVM website hosting. Before that, I'd prejudices on PHP like it's ugly, inelegant. And it can be that. PHP is like C language: you can do bad code, ugly implementation if you aren't rigorous. And it's your project is a "standard" website (i.e. only display page and make some SQL queries), PHP is good enough. No need to use a canon for killing a fly.