Disagree. Indian here, working at pure PHP projects at Razorpay.<p>&gt;1. Performance<p>HHVM, PHP 7<p>&gt;2. Not moving upto pace to match the other languages<p>PHP 7<p>&gt;3. Undervalued language in the industry
&gt;4. Not used in bigger projects or companies<p>Etsy, Facebook, Wordpress, Wikipedia.<p>&gt;5. Poor pay scales<p>This is where it gets interesting. To get better salaries in PHP, you need to be working at better places. Good companies are willing to pay good money for good php developers. It&#x27;s just harder to find because of the large number of beginner PHP devs in the market.<p>&gt;6. Third party tools needed to scale it up<p>True for Ruby, Python, and most other web languages.