[falcolas]

If you want to stop my productivity cold, use PHP. If you want me to just "get shit done", give me Python. Does this, by itself, make Python superior to PHP? No. It's what I'm used to using.

IOW, they are mistaking familiarity with tooling with the superiority of tooling.

[bitexploder]

Heh. Maybe I was just memeing a bit myself. I pretty much only use Python and Flask/Pyramid/Django for building web apps these days and can't imagine using anything else honestly.

Not your post, but I saw someone else calling the blog post out as silly. I used to write a lot of PHP for customers when I freelanced, and I use Python a lot now. PHP is very productive for many of the reasons stated and when you are doing very CRUDy apps PHP frameworks seem quite legit now at doing things like MVC.