[codesushi42]

That's fair.

I think if you're building CRUD apps over and over again, then yeah, there isn't too much difference.

But if you're building a web service with more complicated business logic and you need more control over your concurrency model, then other languages look more appealing.

And it looks like PHP doesn't have JIT yet, which is another huge mark against it.

So PHP is probably fine for passing params and rendering back HTML. But anything sitting in between that's more interesting should be built in something else.