"Moving" from a language is a laughable concept for me. As professionals, we tend to work with many constraints in play, and one of them, most of the time, is

"Moving" from a language is a laughable concept for me. As professionals, we tend to work with many constraints in play, and one of them, most of the time, is the language. It's not that the client requires me to use PHP, but not using it will be a hassle for the client afterwards, mainly, because of hosting and maintenance. Python and Ruby devs are quite rare where I live, thus, using PHP enables the client to find maintainers easily down the road. Technically, I have no problem moving from one language to another (though, never tried a functional language), and I've done professional work using ruby in the past. Frankly, reading HN discussions about PHP, I feel like they're missing the point, or maybe, it's because I live in a country where PHP is prevalent - there's a whole market here for PHP devs, I've been doing contract work for almost 3years now using XHTML/CSS/JS/PHP stack exclusively, most of the time with a framework, or even a CMS.