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A good developer uses the best tools available, because she/he knows the value of using them.

If you got all the time in the world: Yeah, do this! But lets be honest: Ain’t nobody got time for that. So if you got this great idea and you only know PHP (or Ruby or Perl or Python or you name it), don’t wait and go for it.

The best tool for the job is the best tool you know best for the job. So if you only know PHP then PHP is the best tool for the job. However, if you know PHP and C, then PHP will be the best tool for a web application and C the best one for numeric calculation.

I do disagree with that statement "Ain't nobody got time for that." If you are going to spend 3months working on something, it's worth learning to use a new tool that is best for the job.

No. The value of knowing your system well far exceed the value of supposedly best system (of which is really arguable). Especially if it's a rush job, using tools you know well will drastically reduce time needed, because you already know in and outs of such tools, and is able to identify buggy part quickly.

Also, as we are talking about web development, what is best tools? ASP.NET? Rails? Django? Go? J2EE?

JSP is an improvement on PHP, I've heard.

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