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> the merits of the tech

In relation to PHP, really? Sure it has come a long way recently, but there's too much still in there that can never be fixed.

I dont think what IHP delivers is some sort of "fashion": they choose to be server-side only, pretty old school. The typing discipline is not very fashionable either: old, time tested, established, but not often leveraged for the development of simple websites/webapps.