Comment by cweagans

Nonsense. People are writing things in PHP all the time. You just don't hear about it because it's not the cool, new, shiny thing of the week.

Over 34,000 repos created on Github since Jan 1 that have PHP as the main language: https://github.com/search?utf8=✓&q=created%3A%3E2015-01-01+l...