[glaucon]

You might have missed this bit - "Did Facebook, Wikipedia, WordPress, Etsy, Baidu, Box, and more recently Slack all succeed in spite of using PHP?"

[IshKebab]

They didn't provide any real arguments that the answer is anything other than "yes".

Plenty of languages have support for hot reloading, which means you can just edit, save, refresh exactly the same as in PHP, with the added benefit of not having to use PHP.