PHP runs a lot of my projects. Always grateful for the effort that goes into it. Deploying is very easy using git. Composer makes it easy to install libraries.

For the makers: with these packages you can easily make a nice blog/site with minimal amount of code and files.

https://phprouter.com (one file router!) https://github.com/EFTEC/BladeOne (Laravel Style Blade Templates, but much less files) https://parsedown.org (markdown library)