Over the last few years, PHP has grown up and become a much nicer language to work with. The introduction of scalar parameter types, return types, and a host of other features has vastly improved the capability of the language, with more additions being discussed and thought up. But writing PHP applications isn’t just about writing PHP, because the web is not made up of a single language. While PHP has proven itself to be a very versatile language, it’s worth remembering there are other options out there that may be better suited to the job at hand.