[digitallimit0]

Yeah, by being a "PHP developer" rather than say, a Zend developer, he was making that right-hammer-for-the-job argument back in the original article long before ircmaxell got around to implying anything else. I think there's a lot of agreement here that got lost in "simple isn't always better!"

[Periodic]

Looking at it now I see you're right. "PHP developer" is meant to be less limiting than the options the author of the MicroPHP Manifesto was considering.

When it was brought up in the context of this article, I read it as someone being proud to be a developer of PHP. Among many academic crowds and HN it feels like PHP is a dirty word.