&gt; PHP gets so much love and money shoved at it, the Ruby programmer in me finds it unfair.<p>Popular has little to do with fair, and a lot to do with being in the right place at the right time.<p>And network effects mean that being popular can make something desirable for some uses even when its intrinsic features aren&#x27;t superior. And, anyway, while Ruby may sometimes lose to PHP for this reasons, it (due to Rails) often benefits from this, too.