> What kind of greenfield projects were they, and who was making those conscious choices? Without context it's just non-sense.
B2B shop, Marketplace, lots typical CRUD stuff. I don't think there is much of a pattern.
Developers wanted to use PHP. Though of course here in Germany PHP is much more popular than in the states.
> What other technologies have you used in your experience, that came to conclusion?
For server-side stuff:
Ruby, Python, JS/TS, Squeak/smalltalk (yes actually in production)
Ruby used to have some productivity advantages because of Rails but these day, as PHP frameworks have caught up, I see many shops that did both PHP and Ruby going back to PHP.
> Name features PHP avoided while copying.
Those that PHP does not have? Not sure how to make a negative list.
What kind of greenfield projects were they, and who was making those conscious choices? Without context it's just non-sense.
> For the majority of projects NOT using PHP is basically throwing money in the trash. Best deployment story. Great ecosystem.
What other technologies have you used in your experience, that came to conclusion?
> This is a really big strength. PHP is able to learn from other languages and when implementing features can avoid mistakes that they made.
Name features PHP avoided while copying.