"Since when did something need to have novel features or ideas in order to be productive?"
It doesn't. But if your language ideas are admittedly no better than the next guy's, what's the point?
It doesn't. But if your language ideas are admittedly no better than the next guy's, what's the point?
Its the lowest barrier to entry web language - and honestly, I'm ok with people writing shit PHP. It gets good Ideas out there quickly - allowing the business to grow without a focus on the Development. This creates opportunities for sharp developers to come in and work on proven ideas.
For me PHP is like Java but with sane nullability. It's like python but it actually has interfaces so that I can do proper OOP.
That's one big important point.