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I'm talking about people who need websites in general. Not your fancy startup. Also please name me a single startup that for some reason could not flourish using PHP as opposed to some other language?

It's really more about the talent of your team than the language you choose to write your app(s) in.

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> It's really more about the talent of your team than the language you choose to write your app(s) in.

If you have a talented team, why on earth did you choose PHP?

It's too bad to see that your comment was voted down. It's a legitimate question, deserving of an answer.

It isn't the late 1990s any longer. Perl and PHP aren't the only viable options available for web development. We have more alternatives now than ever before.

It was one thing when a team chose to use PHP because it was all that their preferred hosting provider supported, for instance, but those days are long gone. There really is very little reason to use PHP these days, especially for new development.

Especially since platforms like Heroku makes deploying a Python or RoR app in 15 minutes really simple.

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