The motive behind that wasn't about people not being skilled outside their current language (which I agree would be amusing), but that I wasn't sure trying to pitch a PHP job to ruby/python/java developers was going to be successful.

I guess seeing all the PHP-bashing that happens in the world (especially on HN) made me a little gunshy about approaching high-level devs to work on our project.

Fortunately thanks to some very well-made points and stories shared on this thread, I am now optimistic that I should be able to convince devs used to "better" languages that working on a PHP project could still be cool and a good learning experience.

This thread has been really great for me. Thanks, HN!