> being able to ship a single binary, such as what Rust and Go can provide, is really nice
Unless you're distributing your binary to 3rd parties, why?
If you really don't want to deploy changes to e.g. a single/small number of controller or template files as independent file changes, build your PHP app into a .phar archive, and deploy that.
I don't specifically think PHP, when run (IMO) the best way it can be, is "easier to deploy" but I also don't think it's harder either.
I'm going to ignore your other comments because they're personal opinions and while you express them as facts, I realise you probably mean them as statements of opinion.
But the last part, I just don't understand:
> I really wish PHP would just die. Continuing to drag it along like the dead carcass it is wastes so much human effort. The longer it exists, the longer we have to support it.
Who is the "we" in this statement? You clearly don't like it personally, so why does it affect you, at all? I'm not a huge fan of Java, but I don't go around claiming that it should "die" or that humanity is somehow worse off because it exists.
There's no such thing as a client-side PHP application, so it doesn't even compare to e.g. genuine concern over tech choices that are 'forced' upon users of a website (e.g. Flash, SilverLight, ActiveX, javacript bloat, etc). If the backend part of the system does what it needs to do, the language/framework/runtime it's written in/with is meaningless.
Unless you're distributing your binary to 3rd parties, why?
If you really don't want to deploy changes to e.g. a single/small number of controller or template files as independent file changes, build your PHP app into a .phar archive, and deploy that.
I don't specifically think PHP, when run (IMO) the best way it can be, is "easier to deploy" but I also don't think it's harder either.
I'm going to ignore your other comments because they're personal opinions and while you express them as facts, I realise you probably mean them as statements of opinion.
But the last part, I just don't understand:
> I really wish PHP would just die. Continuing to drag it along like the dead carcass it is wastes so much human effort. The longer it exists, the longer we have to support it.
Who is the "we" in this statement? You clearly don't like it personally, so why does it affect you, at all? I'm not a huge fan of Java, but I don't go around claiming that it should "die" or that humanity is somehow worse off because it exists.
There's no such thing as a client-side PHP application, so it doesn't even compare to e.g. genuine concern over tech choices that are 'forced' upon users of a website (e.g. Flash, SilverLight, ActiveX, javacript bloat, etc). If the backend part of the system does what it needs to do, the language/framework/runtime it's written in/with is meaningless.