[gaptoothclan]

I have used PHP extensively and moved to node then finally settled on using golang. I think PHP does have a place as a current programming language but much more small scale operations.

It is just more complicated, to run a PHP site you need to have knowledge of PHP, PHP config, server config, the tooling is poor, there is always something else you need to bolt on to get a similar experience to a modern development language, there are so many ways you can write bad code or write code in a different style to others around you sharing this in a team is hard.

At my company we still run PHP apps and everything we want to do as an organisation is relatively simple in Go, but hard with PHP. I imagine the issues and problems we have with it are why it is not well used in large organisations