No offense intended, but BRL does not appear to be a popular choice. It may have existed, but so did other possibilities not mentioned too, the idea was to summarize what choices your average developer had.

I would also add that a lot of people chose PHP because they had been working in it since the late 90s and needed a big improvement in order to justify changing.

Right, I'm saying it wasn't popular.

It isn't that people tried BRL and decided its superiority in speed of development, speed of execution, security and learnability weren't big enough. It's that people didn't try it.

Tcl things have been around a long time too, like Rivet, which was faster than PHP, and utilized a much nicer language.