I forgot another one: There's very little tool or library support for using PHP for non-web-facing scripts. I like being able to use the same languages and lib

I forgot another one: There's very little tool or library support for using PHP for non-web-facing scripts. I like being able to use the same languages and libraries for both web and non-web code, and to have my web apps use the large body of e.g. Ruby or Python libraries that weren't necessarily designed with web apps in mind.