Is there a possibility things would be better if PHP was abandoned? Nope. Beginning coders write vulnerabilities until they're otherwise educated. In PHP these

Is there a possibility things would be better if PHP was abandoned? Nope. Beginning coders write vulnerabilities until they're otherwise educated. In PHP these are SQL injection and XSS holes. In C they're buffer overflows. Of course things would improve if we educated all PHP developers on the security implications of whatever it is they're programming. But so many years of coding have shown it's infeasible (for any language). Education is feasible for any language. Some segment of the programming population will always remain uneducated -- laziness or apathy on their part -- but this doesn't mean education doesn't work.