I deploy PHP applications all the time! I simply cannot share your sentiment though.
I cannot think of an easier deployment paradigm than what essentially amounts to a copy and paste in the simplest case (i.e. what we should strive for), and maybe one or two more steps in a more complex case (e.g. `composer install`).
An entire PHP installation can literally be copied and pasted onto another machine and "just work"(though you may need to fiddle with some paths in the .ini). Similarly PHP is fast enough that it's unlikely to ever be the bottleneck in terms of performance/scaling for 99% of use-cases.
I suppose I can agree that PHP may lend itself well to certain kinds of "bad practices", but that's true for any system if not managed well.
I cannot think of an easier deployment paradigm than what essentially amounts to a copy and paste in the simplest case (i.e. what we should strive for), and maybe one or two more steps in a more complex case (e.g. `composer install`).
An entire PHP installation can literally be copied and pasted onto another machine and "just work"(though you may need to fiddle with some paths in the .ini). Similarly PHP is fast enough that it's unlikely to ever be the bottleneck in terms of performance/scaling for 99% of use-cases.
I suppose I can agree that PHP may lend itself well to certain kinds of "bad practices", but that's true for any system if not managed well.