I am amazed at the negative responses. I know PHP isn't perfect, but why are some of you morons using PHP for projects, making a living of it and then hating on it? PHP websites are easy to deploy, runs on almost any web server, easy to understand. If you cannot code a good web application blame yourself not the language, I've seen good and bad web applications in PHP. The only thing I see in this blog post is that the author is trying to get some attention. " I'm starting a new open source web project with the goal of making the code as freely and easily runnable to the world as possible. Despite the serious problems with PHP, I was forced to consider it. " Yeah typical Internet tough guy.