I used to be a .net dev, then I switched to Ruby then to a polyglot role using python/php/javascript/.net. Today Laravel is my goto for new web development. For me, it is equal in strength to RoR, or ASP.NET CORE MVC. All languages have sufficient library strength, and similar feature sets. But PHP offers superior "dev-ops". Deploying updates is so painless in PHP, that I feel like I can really move a lot faster.