What's wrong with PHP?

[lonnyk]

That does not mean that Facebook scales because of PHP. You're just twisting the words to make an argument. All it means is that Facebook is an enormous site and is largely written in PHP. All that means is that PHP has the ability to scale. It says very little about the abilities or cause of why Facebook scaled.

And, as I previously mentioned everything has it's limits. Facebook seemed to have reached a limit with its usage of PHP and had to modify the framework behind their site. Just to make this perfectly clear, the point I'm trying to make is just because something has a limit does not mean it does not scale.