PHP is still the only option on many, many shared hosting services. Less common over time, but imagine the amount of legacy code that requires PHP libraries or

PHP is still the only option on many, many shared hosting services. Less common over time, but imagine the amount of legacy code that requires PHP libraries or frameworks. If newcomers wanted to ease their development with a more concise language, that holds the same opportunities and difficulties anyone chosing CoffeeScript, Scala, etc. in development has made.