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The article is fallacious in that writing "hello world" (and then working your way up to printing the numbers from one to 10, then asking for your name and printing "Hello, $NAME", then checking the time and printing good morning/evening etc) isn't about building a fully-featured modern web application. You could argue that the example is criminally irresponsible because it neither considers the need for HTTPS and 2FA! And finally, you need to compare apples to apples. Setting up a similarly fully featured application in any language takes significant effort, and may well be easier than in PHP, but Hello World is still easier in PHP.