It's fine. I still write a decent amount of PHP. I also maintain a Wordpress-backed CMS that processes payments and it works just fine to the tune of several mi

It's fine. I still write a decent amount of PHP. I also maintain a Wordpress-backed CMS that processes payments and it works just fine to the tune of several million dollars per year, a figure that most people on HN start planning for concurrency, scaling, and doing tons of premature optimizations before hitting. I helped on the HyperPHP documentation team and debugged a bunch as I wrote some machine learning stuff in PHP as an exercise in developing it with the HyperPHP translator. I enjoy writing it. I find myself using Python more and more simply because it's easier to find better outsourcers with academic projects in their background (a niche I'm in and something that Python was literally built to service), but PHP 7+ has been great. I don't particularly care for the unbridled hate that comes with PHP historically being "bad" and also extremely popular.