I been in exact same position recently. PHP is the language allowing to craft something quick and crappy and making "it" to work on any platform it is easy to

I been in exact same position recently. PHP is the language allowing to craft something quick and crappy and making "it" to work on any platform it is easy to get lazy with this. I found myself I stopped growing with PHP. Quickie, interpreted languages for "hit and run" projects are not my stuff. Spiritually it is not mine. I used to do lots of high performance, multithreaded, backend apps coding in C++ before. So I decided to switch to .NET / C# platform. Love it. It's secure, it's fast, it's enterprise supported, it's has the best development and deployment tools on the market, it's fully cloud ready. It's strongly typed (no RoR junk like: "cat ran on my keyword and I successfully deployed it to production" any more). It's convoluted, it's overly complicated and it more and more poorly documented but I having fun with it. It gets the job done.