For me, 2 main advantages PHP has, for real production code, are: 1) Easy hotfixing/debugging on production servers. Just edit a file and save. Our teams which

For me, 2 main advantages PHP has, for real production code, are: 1) Easy hotfixing/debugging on production servers. Just edit a file and save. Our teams which program in PHP solve blockers way faster than the Go teams. 2) "Shared nothing" architecture, which has two advantages: a) it's scalable without additional effort, because PHP processes are stateless b) better security, especially if you're doing multitenant SaaS, because all requests are isolated from each other (there was a bug in ChatGPT when you could view chats of other users because requests from different users were served by the same OS process in Python and they had a race condition bug when switching between users inside the same OS process - such bugs are very rare in PHP) Not saying it's unique to PHP, but these 2 advantages for real production code are often overlooked; people instead focus on non-essential minutiae like "inconsistent function name, I'd name it differently tbh"