Ewww, You Use PHP?

I wouldn't want to go back to programming PHP due to its many issues[1]. I especially wouldn't want to work somewhere that spends development energy on BobX[2] to make PHP easier to work with. That means I have to use two technologies that won't give me any way to advance in the industry, and will most likely hinder me at this point.<p>[1] <a href="http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/" rel="nofollow">http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...</a> [2] <a href="http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We-Use-BobX.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We-Use-BobX.aspx</a>

I have no doubt you can do a lot of powerful things with PHP, provided you have the experience and put in the man power + time. But this does not justify the use of PHP now (for new projects), it just means that if you happen to be stuck on PHP because of legacy code, you could make it work.

What I'm confused by, is why is this even a conversation? PHP is possibly the most used language in the world. I'd presume that there's tons of highly qualified engineers to choose from, who are already bought in to the value of the language.

So if you replicated their special and custom 'platform' in Ruby or Python and it exceeded PHP's performance by miles what would their reasoning for continuing to use PHP be?

This article was written in Oct 2010, but it looks like they still use PHP.