[ssmall]

It helps though. High adoption, especially with bigger companies, leads to my eyes on the code which can cause a higher quality run time. It also means there are more tools, frameworks, reference books, and ultimately jobs out there for it.

[drumdance]

Yes. The availability of a bunch of easy-to-Google tutorials, libraries, hacks, workarounds etc should be included in the overall utility of a language.

[prodigal_erik]

I just followed the first half dozen search results for "php tutorial mysql". All of them resort to pasting string literals into queries, with not a prepared statement in sight. One of PHP's problems is that it quickly reached a critical mass of self-perpetuating misinformation between the ignorant and the slightly less ignorant, ensuring unforgivable security blunders for years to come. At this point I don't know how anyone could solve this, short of dramatic language changes that make those crappy old tutorials obviously unusable.