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Stop trolling PHP developers. How would you feel if your darling language received this kind of review? Honestly, PHP is a fine language to begin learning, it'

Stop trolling PHP developers. How would you feel if your darling language received this kind of review? Honestly, PHP is a fine language to begin learning, it's very easy to get a local development server going for someone who barely knows the CLI, it's integrated tightly with HTML (for better or worse) which make things simple before you move to patterns like MVC, etc. You can build some pretty cool, performant, beautiful software with PHP - and there are always well paying jobs out there (especially if you're not in the valley where Ruby & Python are disproportionately more popular than elsewhere.) PHP 7 with a new, (loose) type system and a lot of the old, insecure cruft removed isn't actually a bad language, especially if your build process involves Composer and you're following the standards laid out by the PHP FIG/PSR.

V-2 10y ago
Well of course I played to the negative stereotype as a joke : ) Obviously reality is not that simple, but to briefly sum up my personal take on it, yes good PHP may be good, even beatiful, but in practice it's rare to come by. One of the reasons being the prevailing culture of duct tape mentality that seems to surround it. I'm speaking from my subjective experience, YMMV. > How would you feel if your darling language received this kind of review? I'm not that attached to my favourite languages, but the thing is - they just don't receive it for some reason : ) It's probably correlated with why they're my favourites. I don't have overly fancy preferences, I like C# (it is getting its share of hate, but hardly ever as a language in and of itself, it's typically directed at Microsoft and that's another story) and Kotlin (sort of like Swift but for Android).