PHP, as a language, particularly since somewhere in the 5.x series, is basically "flawed, but still more than adequate." The real problem is that so many peop

PHP, as a language, particularly since somewhere in the 5.x series, is basically "flawed, but still more than adequate." The real problem is that so many people who use it are utterly incompetent. When someone says they work in/with PHP you immediately wonder if they're in the "let's duplicate a 900-line function across dozens of files just to give various pages a different icon" camp, the "I call myself a PHP Developer, but all I really do is Drupal Templates" camp, or in the "using Composer and everything is pretty much like you'd expect it to be in any web app built with Ruby or Python or Node" camp. Until you know, you fear acknowledging them or associating with them. But you can't really ask them up front. So it's easier to just avoid them. And I say this as someone who occasionally works in PHP.