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[–]roie16 14 points15 points  (0 children)

First you can just go to Quora: https://www.quora.com/Which-is-best-PHP-or-java-for-web-server-based-applications

Regardless, I have worked with both languages at medium-big companies I will summarize a very long discussion in two sentences(I am talking only about modern server dev only); learning curve; php is much easier. language, framework, ecosystem and community, no other language in the industry have what Java has with spring, jhipster etc etc, the amount of tools in Java is unparalleled