As someone who has also been working with PHP since early 4.x, I find I have a lot of sympathy for the haters. It has improved a lot, but there's a lot to hate

As someone who has also been working with PHP since early 4.x, I find I have a lot of sympathy for the haters. It has improved a lot, but there's a lot to hate. https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ is a pretty thorough overview.