Come on, PHP is the 'Justin Bieber' of languages, everyone knows it. Its the most successful and widely used web server language in use and with anything so po

Come on, PHP is the 'Justin Bieber' of languages, everyone knows it. Its the most successful and widely used web server language in use and with anything so popular it has a large group of haters. If anyone wants to come off like a 'serious' programmer, all they need to do is denounce PHP as a horrible aberration, a frankenstein of a language. Most don't even know about the changes in the language over the last decade, they just hate it to stay inline with their peers. However, those opinions dont line up with the facts. PHP goes beyond semantics of language, it's a complete service for delivering dynamic HTML from the server. Why is it so successful? It is one of the most robust, well supported, battle tested languages to appear in the last 15 years. Its support is guaranteed on any hosting platform or cloud solution available. It has a large array of libraries capable of integrating with most any service whether that be databases, web apis etc. It has the ability to scale for high demand, as demonstrated by the many large corps that use it. If you want to rip on PHP because it's cool, I think you're simply shooting yourself in the foot and ignoring a tool capable of performing almost any task you would require of it on the server side.