I share a lot of same sentiments as the author and I've had experience with a few more languages. The arguments I get from my friends are that "It's the most p

I share a lot of same sentiments as the author and I've had experience with a few more languages. The arguments I get from my friends are that "It's the most popular language on the web" and "Facebook uses it so it can't be that bad." All of those to me just fall into the title of this post: You don't know better. I've shown a few of my friends Node.js and now they are on the same page with respect to PHP. One thing I've learned is that people don't want to learn until they are ready to learn so bashing their language never helps. I take the approach of trying to show them how to do something (usually with a video chat and start from scratch quick demo) in a better language framework and show them how it's less code, easier to test, easier to debug, better MVC framework, and faster execution. That's how I've won hearts and minds.