There's still so much nonsense that you don't have to worry about in other languages. PHP still has, for example, php.ini, errors (not to be confused with excep

There's still so much nonsense that you don't have to worry about in other languages. PHP still has, for example, php.ini, errors (not to be confused with exceptions), a messy standard library with no coherent naming system or organisation, obvious feature gaps, inconsistent and unintuitive behaviour in many places, outright bugs that have been documented but never fixed, etc. Nonetheless, things are improving bit by bit. PHP has come a long way.