[balac]

I'm one of those on the fence. I've spent most of my programming life working on PHP and the recent barrage of negativity against PHP has made me more interested in learning another language, if just to make an educated comparison and see whether I am continue to use PHP "because I know it" or because it is actually good.

I'm currently having a go at Python + Flask in my spare time.

[davidw]

Recent? I never cared for it, and I know that was a common sentiment amongst many 'HN' type people (even though there was no HN then), but until Ruby on Rails came out, I had never found something that had everything I needed and wide appeal. At the time, for me, that meant continued work on Apache Rivet ( http://tcl.apache.org/rivet/ ) , which in a lot of ways was better than PHP, but always suffered from not having a lot of users.