A friend texts me last night &quot;we&#x27;re ready to finally build a website for our bar&quot;<p>half hour phone call later and a basic 4-5 page Wordpress website is decided upon.<p>And after what will be 8-10 hours of work sometime this weekend, I&#x27;ll be finished with the site, have earned a quick $800 (friend prices) and he&#x27;ll have something nice and easy to maintain.<p>PHP is not the devil - it allows a lot of us to earn a living &#x2F; make some extra cash - backed by an incredibly huge community and is easy to write in.<p>If I was building the next Facebook - sure, I&#x27;d spend time researching languages, frameworks, etc... but day to day programmers don&#x27;t care about language short-comings or pitfalls - we care about earning a living and whatever it takes to get the job done cost effective. And my friend cares about functionality &#x2F; cost &#x2F; ease of updating.<p>90% of the internet is made up of websites like this - quick and easy websites that serve a small niche population. Not massive scalable multi million dollar spanning websites.<p>Get off my (PHP) lawn!