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Because the vast majority of problems are trivial. And a trivial problem demands a trivial solution.

PHP offers a development paradigm second to none. Drop a single file into a single directory and hit f5. Problem solved. Next.

Which language above can do that?




Well ... both Flask (Python) and Express with Nodemon (NodeJS) can do hot reload.


No doubt. I'm not trying disparage other options.

My point is that PHP literally only requires a single file to work. No cli commands. No 3rd-party packages. No configuration files. Just PHP.




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