[mddw]

If you want to do freelance work, learning PHP (or ASP) is mandatory. Sure, Ruby is great, but you'll keep stumbling on :

"our shared host is PHP only, we don't want to change for another" "we want wordpress" "our computer guys know a little PHP, we need PHP" "what the fuck is Ruby ?"

So you'll try to educate your client, to explain why Ruby us great. But you'll fail, because most clients don't give a shit and, for their very basic needs, PHP is as good as ruby.

[jasonm23]

To be fair, the big problem is that EVERY language can go through the hands of the incompetent.