Your analysis of the benefits doesn't seem to be very favorable to PHP, so I am still confused as to how you came to the conclusion that using anything other th

Your analysis of the benefits doesn't seem to be very favorable to PHP, so I am still confused as to how you came to the conclusion that using anything other than PHP is basically impossible. Again I feel the need to ask, what is it you are choosing PHP for? We were making a language choice for building a large web app that is the basis of the company. PHP rated terribly for that purpose. Setting up a blog for someone would presumably have PHP rating much better. >In general terms I think it might be easier/cheaper to launch an MVP in PHP with a sensible framework (like Yii) and then migrate to Python + web2py or Django for the "real" product. Why do you think that? >I'll venture the thought that most PHP-only programmers are really bad programmers Obviously.