The &quot;fast PHP7 engine&quot; part not. Raw Ruby was slower (but comparable) to raw PHP, so with this new engine which consistently runs real life workloads 2x, PHP7 should be like twice as fast.<p>And PHP still has more vendors, support in all kinds of hosts, even in third world facilities, and more companies offering commercial support. Plus there&#x27;s stuff in PHP that don&#x27;t exist with the same level of maturity&#x2F;adoption&#x2F;community in Ruby&#x2F;Rails, e.g. Wordpress.<p>And even a path to static typing, through Hack.