| "Is there anything that PHP is developing or adopting that can not be had at other established languages?" One thing that PHP does better than any other language for web development is ease of deployment. It isn't really anything inherent in the language that makes it easier to deploy, it's simply that hundreds, probably thousands of web hosts have made deployment easy for PHP. Also, the PHP community has documented deployment and installation scenarios thoroughly. Deployment might sound like a small piece in the overall picture of building a web app but it is actually hugely important. If you want your users to self-install your web app, or to give them the widest possibly choice of deployment hosts, then PHP beats every other language by a mile. I always mention this quote from blogger and programmer Jeff Attwood on this topic of depolyment: "If you want to produce free-as-in-whatever code that runs on virtually every server in the world with zero friction or configuration hassles, PHP is damn near your only option." [1] Guess when he wrote it? 2012. Sure, we've got VPS and even more hosting options, but in 2020 what other languages can match or even surpass PHP's ease of deployment? Can you give instructions to your relatively non-tech users and tell them how to successful deploy your web app with the same ease as PHP? [1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/ |