If you think about it, there are two noticeable motives that put PHP where it is:
- The language has been made and (poorly?) designed around the web. While PHP is a language itself, it usually has no purpose outside the web, while Python and Ruby do not address the same problems the same way.
- Deployment is easy.
And yet, it seems all these articles fail at noticing these two simple things.
- The language has been made and (poorly?) designed around the web. While PHP is a language itself, it usually has no purpose outside the web, while Python and Ruby do not address the same problems the same way.
- Deployment is easy.
And yet, it seems all these articles fail at noticing these two simple things.