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The combination of syntax highlighting support literally everywhere and a borderline typeless system and command completion. Those are developer positives. Here is the deal php is crazy easy to set up(& make basic themes) and lots of clients will pay for php for similar reasons. Php shared hosting is cheap and franlky unless someone creates something similar it will continue to power the estimated 80+% of the web that it does today. WP is also a killer reason. Any sane client wants a site that isn't stuck on node.js/plugin version 2.X only.