PHP is the diamond in the rough. Don't let all the bad tutorials fool you, beneath is a great platform where you are truly productive. You get far by only havi

PHP is the diamond in the rough. Don't let all the bad tutorials fool you, beneath is a great platform where you are truly productive. You get far by only having PHP and you get twice that by only installing composer. No insane build steps, no running server process that needs to be hot reloaded, composer is faster relative npm, decent typing system and built in development web server. To make PHP a superb language(okay, a better language :-) I wish for three things. * Typed callable signatures * Function autoloading * Generics Looking forward to the possibility of a jit in PHP 8.