A strange response considering you’re not the only person on the Internet. You didn’t post any alternative, and if you had, it would probably have the 1% of the install base of PHP. Remember that most people hosting this thing aren’t going to be setting up their own VPN and Linux. In fact, even YOU don’t do it, you probably will just use AWS creating MORE centralization in “the cloud”. That’s pretty hypocritical. Meanwhile the LAMP stack or NGinX + PHP stack is widely deployed on the web. And many of the installations have the latest PHP. What is less secure about the latest PHP than your favorite language?

Finally, about being modern and chasing trends. Wordpress is not modern but it powers 1 in every 3 websites. Ghost is modern and is used on 0.1% of websites. Thanks but we’ll pass.

I am not even sure how PHP is disrespectful, so I’ll leave that one alone.

If it makes you feel better, we are also working on an app hosting the whole network from a random computer or a mobile phone on a local network.

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/922074/list-of-most-popula...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-Node-js-killing-PHP

Your answer somehow conflates popularity with quality.

PHP has a lot of very well documented problems.

Also, do you have a source when claiming that most PHP installations use more modern versions? I seriously doubt that particular claim is true. Most business people think of IT as a one-time expense. You can still find a ton of 5.0 - 5.3 installations out there. Hell, in my country there are good amount of PHP 4.x websites as well.