[Cthulhu_]

I'm surprised that we've had a number of new languages and advancements in the past ten years or so, but none that tried to fill the same space as PHP & co did... unless I missed it.

But then, I suppose PHP itself is good enough and the people using it never felt a need for anything new. Laravel solved the lack of application structure / design handrails, and Facebook solved or worked on the bigger issues around the language - typing and runtime performance.

[bojan]

Symfony is there as well, a framework fit for large enterprise applications, and it works surprisingly well.

Despite that, php has its limits, and it's important to know them, and the workarounds for most of them. What is also tricky is a total lack of support from Azure for example.