Fortunately for your hypothetical "king of php" is still underwhelming in most people's opinion. The other thing is learning the basics of one of these technol

Fortunately for your hypothetical "king of php" is still underwhelming in most people's opinion. The other thing is learning the basics of one of these technologies really isn't super hard. It's not that you have to start using it daily, just spend a long weekend understanding the problem they aim to solve and how they achieve that aim.