> because of the runtime! It's so dead simple to develop and deploy PHP.
As someone who had to deploy PHP applications: hell no. For developers it might be easy, but for admins, the runtime is nowhere near good. Sure if you think deploying your site using scp, already discovered rsync to do this, or even use the cutting edge way of deploying by using a git checkout on the server, you might think it's great. But that's how you take down sites or have service interruption.
The problem is not that it cannot be done right, the problem is that the runtime enables and even promotes such bad practices, and makes doing it properly harder than it should be. And then we don't go into php extensions, performance tuning, profiling, scaling, ...
As someone who had to deploy PHP applications: hell no. For developers it might be easy, but for admins, the runtime is nowhere near good. Sure if you think deploying your site using scp, already discovered rsync to do this, or even use the cutting edge way of deploying by using a git checkout on the server, you might think it's great. But that's how you take down sites or have service interruption.
The problem is not that it cannot be done right, the problem is that the runtime enables and even promotes such bad practices, and makes doing it properly harder than it should be. And then we don't go into php extensions, performance tuning, profiling, scaling, ...