Hrm I haven’t been talking about PHP, but ORMs and static typing.. If you’re working in PHP then yea I see how you’re still using raw sql probably. I don’t know of any enterprises that don’t use either .Net or Java for their large line of business apps. Definitely not PHP, static typing is relatively new to it.

I think we’d need to know a lot more about each other’s projects and experiences to continue as this debate has become a bunch of generalizations.