PHP isn’t the same old crappy language it was ten years ago

So much that PHP web applications have comparable — in some cases better — performance than web frameworks in other languages. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of new features in PHP:

While we’re on the topic of language features, let’s also talk about the process of how the language is developed today. While most of core development is done on a voluntary basis, one of the core PHP developers, Nikita Popov, has recently been employed by JetBrains to work on the language full time.

Source: stitcher.io