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IME, that also makes PHP worth it for shell scripts. It's miles better than the common baseline that's bash/perl... but once word gets out, people will ask you to rewrite their 30 kLOC sh monstrum into something readable...

Mmm. It really depends on whether you have the scope to start your projects and stay in control.

idk, when I want productivity I go with nodejs these days. lodash for some quick data crunching and pg or mariadb for db access using promises simply beats native php functions. with express you can spawn a http server in under 10 lines, while with php you need to setup apache/nginx or docker.

at some point in the past PHP was the most productive tool for some quick & dirty coding, but not anymore for me.

I recommend checking out FrankenPHP, where you can spin up a production php server with a single cli command, or compile your php into a self-executable binary.

I’m a contributor over there.