Even more relevant for professional use is platform ubiquity. PHP is simply more widespread. That has real value! If you encounter a problem, someone else ran into it as well. If it's a legitimate error in PHP, it'll get fixed and will get attention. On other platforms? Yours may be the sole voice on the issue. Nobody will listen. Been there, done that. No thanks.
"PHP is simply more widespread. That has real value!"
"If you encounter a problem, someone else ran into it as well."
So you imply you can't be the first anymore to run into a new problem with PHP?
"If it's a legitimate error in PHP, it'll get fixed and will get attention."
If you find a legitimate error in the implementation of _any_ language it'll get fixed and will get attention. Unless it's abandoned, or no longer mantained.
"On other platforms? Yours may be the sole voice on the issue. Nobody will listen."
