I've been working on a custom web framework in PHP for nearly two years at this point. This morning I realized that I needed to add an extension system to the project.
Flash forward about 12 hours (with breaks for a walk and food) and I've built a fairly robust extension system.
And the core functionality isn't much more than 350 lines of code.
Plugins are bi-directional and, in many instances, adding new API endpoints only requires a single line of code! 🏆
@gardiner_bryant Yeah... but on the other hand, you're bringing more PHP into the world. 😢
Thijmer 
@gardiner_bryant @bear454 Python is also very accessible and for many new programmers it's their first language but Python has a really good reputation. I don't have a lot of experience with PHP so take my opinion with a grain of salt but to me, it's a combination of annoying/hard to learn things for new users: Pointers like in C (uncommon in interpreted languages), $var like in Bash, joining strings with ., scripts are often made up of multiple pages etc...
@gardiner_bryant I heard "there were very fine people on both sides" :P
@bear454 PHP is actually an incredibly robust and wonderful language. It gets a bad wrap because it's accessible and that means lots of amateurs can write really bad code. But there's so much excellent PHP out there.