[HugoDaniel]

PHP unique pros:

  - Cheap (almost every cheap/free hosting supports it without any extra config)
  - Easy (can other languages beat this out of the box: `$_POST["name"]` ?)
  - Wordpress

PHP things that are not unique but good:

  - Huge market (if you are into bootstrapping your business, there are lots of opportunities and low hanging fruit in PHP)
  - Lots of big open source projects to customize or work on top of (nextcloud, etc...)

Things that you need in order to appreciate PHP:

  - Have a product mindset

[agumonkey]

I'm still a bit surprised nobody ever used PHP as a target (think clojure/jvm, or whatever/js).

There's https://github.com/Scriptor/pharen though