I&#x27;d say PHP is definitely one of those. Modern PHP web development is pretty productive and definitely high quality.<p>EDIT after reading the article: I do have to agree that concurrency in PHP is a bit of a pain, but those 3d party tools are pretty easy to use and maintain.<p>&gt; Without significant forethought to several levels of caching; such as in memory caching, op caching ...<p>This is so trivial to setup it&#x27;s not even worth mentioning.<p>&gt; Sure, PHP has PSR standards etc, but they&#x27;re fairly new and developers have been slow to adopt them.<p>Everyone I know and every library I use uses those standards. PHP is pretty standardized now, especially compared for example to js.<p>PHP frameworks work well out of the box and contain solutions for most use-cases.<p>Go is nice but when I tried it I really missed something like composer. &quot;go get&quot; and commit your dependencies to the repository? Seriously? That&#x27;s wrong on so many levels. Meanwhile I think composer is one of the best package managers around.