The argument you really should be making is that the Javascript syntax is familiar. jQuery and it's methods for traversing the DOM can trivially be implemented

The argument you really should be making is that the Javascript syntax is familiar. jQuery and it's methods for traversing the DOM can trivially be implemented in any langauge. e.g. PHP: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dom_crawler.html#node-filtering http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dom_crawler.html#n...