I have years of professional experience writing PHP.
It's much slower to develop in or get up and running than any other language I have experience with.
Now it was faster when I had no experience, absolutely. That's solved with a few hours of reading docs and playing around. Then the other language is likely faster turnaround, easier to setup, etc.
And besides I'm not even convinced that "easy to set up" is a metric you should be using when you are deciding on a language for a non-trivial project.
It's much slower to develop in or get up and running than any other language I have experience with.
Now it was faster when I had no experience, absolutely. That's solved with a few hours of reading docs and playing around. Then the other language is likely faster turnaround, easier to setup, etc.
And besides I'm not even convinced that "easy to set up" is a metric you should be using when you are deciding on a language for a non-trivial project.