It's not "in vogue". There's no trend here, the PHP hate has been very consistent over time. Personally, having had to write a couple of Mediawiki plugins and

It's not "in vogue". There's no trend here, the PHP hate has been very consistent over time. Personally, having had to write a couple of Mediawiki plugins and an extension for a rubbish CMS called TYPO3, my experience so far is that the PHP hate is very much justified.