[phatbyte]

It's 2011 and people still compare frameworks vs languages. PHP may suck, but oh boy, the author doesn't have his facts right. No method chaining ? really ?

Rest assured that I would rather hire a good PHP developer than this guy to code in Ruby.

[pak]

You're right, both things that the author claimed are lacking are in fact very much available.

PHP >5.3 has lambdas: http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php

PHP >5 can support easy method chaining if you return $this from your method.

Lambdas are not yet common, but method chaining is already easy to find in most well-designed PHP libraries and frameworks.

[Lukeas14]

Even though he "can make Rails run just as fast as PHP, but needs between 2 and 4 times as much hardware to do so"?