Is any Language better than PHP for Web Development? [closed]

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PHP has Thousands of Functions related to Web Development baked right in from Simple Ones like filter_var() , htmlentities() to json_encode() similar_text() and levenshtein() distance for Percentage matching. There are so many array() and string() functions that it is really mind-blowing !

Now comes complete OOP support in PHP5 and Native Unicode in PHP6.

Because try writing for example a Cookie in Java or a Servlet and you know what I am talking about. For String and Array handling most probably I am inventing some for-loop Algorithm in Java when in PHP I always find some ready-made function. Recent examples for me have been array_count_values() [Nothing similar in Java for finding aggregate of a Cart] and array_chunk() [ Try wrestling with Java Tokenizers here] . similar_text() Function in PHP is itself a beauty when you need to find How much 2 Strings matcheach other percentage-wise.

Does any other Web Development Language has such Vastness and Sheer Expanse as PHP ?

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There is no language better than another.

There is one language which fits your application requirements and knowledge better, and that's the one you should choose.