@datarama also there must be a reason PHP is half of the Internet!

(I dislike PHP myself, but in the past I loved it.)

There's also thoughts about monocultures there somewhere...

@coder @datarama with limited resources, it does make the most sense to pool them around a few big projects. whether PHP really *deserves* its status on technical merits is debatable, but it *has it*, even if historical reasons play a big role in the why.

if we don't want monocultures, then we *really* need to advocate for better and stable funding for FOSS, both for PHP and other projects. notably, alternatives to PHP *are* plentiful, but a few early web frameworks/software like wordpress that happen to use it absolutely dominate the "market", where "early" and "uses PHP" has a certain amount of correlation. no matter how we turn it, we are not gonna get out of any of these discussions without talking about funding.