" To be honest at this point in time I would say PHP is actually the hardest to find hosting for"
huh? Every VPS and shared hosting provider out there has PHP hosting.
"Whenever I develop in Python/Ruby I actually enjoy the 'feel' of the language,"
I use a language not because of its feel, but about what I can create with it. PHP is by far the easiest, most supported, and has a ton of real-world examples of sites getting millions of hits/day using it successfully.
"I can perform the same operations but generally theres far more cruft, and a couple manual lookups to see why functions behave differently when hashes ("arrays") have numeric indices (I'm looking at you array_merge!)"
I agree with you there. My one main gripe with PHP is inconsistent syntax/usage. However, I dislike frameworks like RoR because it is too high-level. I feel like I don't have enough power to do some customizations and when I do need to do them in something like RoR, I have to add hacks onto it.
huh? Every VPS and shared hosting provider out there has PHP hosting.
"Whenever I develop in Python/Ruby I actually enjoy the 'feel' of the language,"
I use a language not because of its feel, but about what I can create with it. PHP is by far the easiest, most supported, and has a ton of real-world examples of sites getting millions of hits/day using it successfully.
"I can perform the same operations but generally theres far more cruft, and a couple manual lookups to see why functions behave differently when hashes ("arrays") have numeric indices (I'm looking at you array_merge!)"
I agree with you there. My one main gripe with PHP is inconsistent syntax/usage. However, I dislike frameworks like RoR because it is too high-level. I feel like I don't have enough power to do some customizations and when I do need to do them in something like RoR, I have to add hacks onto it.