[frade33]

Yes I am very much interested in learning Ruby/RoR and Python too. I had a brief look over the both of them, and my first impression was their syntax is very simple and easy to learn too, compared to the objective C, which literally gave me a heart attack ;)

Perhaps, I have not developed a lengthy web application myself yet, therefore I can not determine the inefficiencies of PHP over RoR or Python. And this was the reason I posted it here, to see, How PHP can be troublesome in complex web applications and how RoR or Python handle them more efficiently.

[devwebee]

PHP can handle as well or better than Python and Ruby. The performance difference is not that important when choosing between these languages, because they are all slow anyway. If you compare PHP vs Java or Ruby vs NodeJS, then performance gain might be an important factor when choosing. Python is used more outside of webdev than PHP and Ruby, so that might be something to consider, because there are more libraries for making UIs, games, graphics, etc.