At over a dozen PHP jobs in over ten years, I've never seen a real application without a framework be anything but fucking garbage. Garbage. You know it's goin

At over a dozen PHP jobs in over ten years, I've never seen a real application without a framework be anything but fucking garbage. Garbage. You know it's going to be garbage when some idiot tells you not to use a framework but is too fucking stupid to realize that if you don't use one, you have to write one yourself. Every single time. And PHP as a framework itself? Please. PHP is a horribly shitty framework itself for any app that's going to be more than a couple hundred lines of code. It's only with a proper framework on top that it becomes a proper web development platform (some may argue otherwise but their ignorance can be safely ignored). But I assume the author has never written anything more than a demo app, so yeah, if you're writing short scripts under 500 lines, don't use a framework. If you're writing real apps, don't listen to idiots like this author. This isn't PHP specific. There's nothing that makes PHP different from Ruby or Python. Appeals to PHP having been developed for the web are idiotic because while true, it's irrelevant due to the poor quality of PHP < 5 and especially PHP < 3. Yes, it was specifically developed for the web poorly and we've been fixing that ever since. If the author wants to use PHP 2 or 3 (or whatever the fuck they were called), that's one thing, but to pretend that coding in PHP 2/3 style is what makes proper apps these days is fucking insane.