Comment by howToLearnSpark

-> compiled in milliseconds

-> separation between data and code

-> trivial scaling for huge system

-> hundreds of apps, each belonging to a different customer could share the same system

-> decades before docker

-> standard library as only functions.

-> It's cross platform - the user interfaces you build work on all platforms with a single codebase.

-> this language has more than a billion people using it every day.

-> the name of this language may not be spoken here

can only be PHP