In fairness, PHP was in a different place 12 years ago. The language has improved in that time. There are still lots of warts but the language and ecosystem hav

In fairness, PHP was in a different place 12 years ago. The language has improved in that time. There are still lots of warts but the language and ecosystem have worked together to push it forward. I'm going to be honest, I only use it because of company lock in. I hated it for many years but some of the stuff released and some of the stuff on the way in the internals is quite exciting.