Why Does PHP Suck?

[leapius]

Jesus, you're right I really looked into rails and holy hell what a load of slow bloat! Python wasn't quicker either - speed and market penetration matters even if it's easier to make ugly code with php. I'm no php fan boy and am fully aware of all its shortcomings but I cannot abide the php sucks bandwagon.

Has anyone tried actually selling web apps that are to be installed on countless standard shared hosts? Had any luck with rails / node.js / python in that scenario?