I deeply regret choosing PHP for a dictionary website that I wrote 5 years ago. The trouble is that I've moved on as a developer. Mostly everything else I write

I deeply regret choosing PHP for a dictionary website that I wrote 5 years ago. The trouble is that I've moved on as a developer. Mostly everything else I write now is Java or Groovy. I used to be ok with PHP's quirks but now I find my old PHP code so painful to look at that I generally don't and have pretty much given up development on that project with the vague hope of one day having a free month to rewrite it from scratch in something else. Don't see your hours with PHP as a waste though. It's important as a developer to try different platforms and languages so you understand the pros and cons of different approaches.