Hey all, author here. You all are amazing and took down my website! If it's not loading for you, I put the post in a gist which can be found here: https://gist.github.com/jkup/dcaa56f1d066409d17f5
Honestly, I spend a lot of my time writing JavaScript and Scala. My point with the article is just that PHP has a lot of stigma that creates a self fulfilling prophecy of being a 'bad language'.
Agreed. I've been in the Bay Area for ~1 year and definitely see the Ruby / Node / Java trend but back in Michigan it seemed like every tech job I'd run across was PHP or .NET.
Awesome list! I've been using jekyll for about 2 years and I really like it. It's crazy that Jekyll is number 1 and 2 considering Octopress runs on it.