I am using PHP for my hobby project. It's "old" but obviously not abandoned and I think it's becoming a bit less ridiculed, but you still see the regular "Ew wh

I am using PHP for my hobby project. It's "old" but obviously not abandoned and I think it's becoming a bit less ridiculed, but you still see the regular "Ew why PHP"-type remarks and other jokes about the language. I don't use it because of familiarity or comfort (I'm actually quite uncomfortable with it because I know it's easy to fall into traps of horrible practices). The simple answer is that as a kid I loved PHP browser game and envisioned the project I wanted to make for 10 years as a PHP project. I've experimented with using different languages for it, but go back to PHP simply for the sake of nostalgia. I realize this is normally a horrible reason to pick a certain language for a project, but considering it's a pretty quirky long term passion project with no goal of monetization (or even full completion), I think it's reason enough.