It lacks a coherent design philosophy; it's a collection of hacks; a house of cards with no style. It's full of idiosyncrasies that must be memorized because they make no logical sense. Put simply, it completely lacks taste.
Right, and under the category of easily:
What languages do you already know,
What languages are you already actually comfortable using for a large scale project, and
What is the production server running.
If the answer to all of the above is PHP, then you're going to get projects done faster there than you would in Python or Ruby.
It lacks a coherent design philosophy; it's a collection of hacks; a house of cards with no style. It's full of idiosyncrasies that must be memorized because they make no logical sense. Put simply, it completely lacks taste.