More Than a Year Later– An Embarrassing Confession To Make By A Wannabe Coder

Why switch a language just 'cause it's the popular thing on SO? Stick with a language till you got the coding skills done. Switching language after that is pretty easy.

Well you're honest with yourself, and it seems like you know what the answer is. It's great that you're following a 'marriage-driven development' methodology, so pick a language and stick with it, be it PHP, Python or Ruby. None of them is universally better than the others.

Most languages are better at solving specific types of problem. Choose what types of problem you most enjoy working on, and pick the language that suits those problems.