> Still, you don’t see that many big Python and Ruby shops either... But we keep seeing a lot of PHP shops. Does this mean that PHP is better suited for "large

> Still, you don’t see that many big Python and Ruby shops either... But we keep seeing a lot of PHP shops. Does this mean that PHP is better suited for "large scale projects?" I'd very much doubt that. The ease of learning a language and it's availability are very important factors in the popularity of a language. Javascript scores well in this regard. Really, I am not too worried about Javascript's impending doom. Unlike Perl, it continues to remain a favorite "target language" making it further entrenched in most ecosystems.