I think this is a fallacy. Easy deployment has nothing to do with why PHP is still this popular; I think it has a lot more to do with PHP being beginner-friendl

I think this is a fallacy. Easy deployment has nothing to do with why PHP is still this popular; I think it has a lot more to do with PHP being beginner-friendly, in that when things break, they always semi-work as opposed to leaving the wannabe developer completely lost. For the sake of comparing, here's how I make a throwaway app super quickly in Ruby, almost equivalently to a PHP deploy: $ ssh server $ kenji init project # [1] $ cd project $ tmux # launch a background session, edit some code $ bundle exec rackup # in a pane next to my code Boom, brand new web-app is running on my server in less than a minute's work. [1]: This is a Ruby web-app microframework. https://github.com/kballenegger/kenji https://github.com/kballenegger/kenji