&gt; It&#x27;s bad for performance, security, and maintenance.<p>Compared to what, exactly? Ruby? I&#x27;ll give you Node for double performance and roughly equivalent (and annoying) maintenance, but PHP&#x27;s security story, with or without the various popular frameworks, is at least as good. Any stack built on the JVM has its own set of tradeoffs -- I would rather maintain PHP than any standard JavaEE solution, but I would rather maintain anything built on Clojure&#x27;s Ring than PHP. These days Python with Flask is my go-to solution for quick things where I might have used PHP in the past, but even then there are tradeoffs, near the top being you can&#x27;t just deploy to any shared hosting service that&#x27;s been around for over a decade.