[neverminder]

Well then it's catch 22 isn't it? Unless we boycott PHP it will never go away and hosting providers won't have any incentive to change.

[RossM]

I think you'd have better luck in making ways of supporting drag-and-drop deployment for your preferred languages. I can't find it now but there was such a tool for Python that allowed you to run Python scripts in the same way as PHP (no app server as such).