Turing completeness doesn't bother me as much as all the security issues that existed by default (some of which are still present to this day). I wish programm

Turing completeness doesn't bother me as much as all the security issues that existed by default (some of which are still present to this day). I wish programming languages made a type-level distinction between strings that are and aren't tainted by user input. That would make it so much harder to accidentally introduce injection vectors. I totally agree that PHP was not well suited for writing large and complex programs, but its ubiquitous availability as a deployment platform made it an interesting target anyway. The easy deployment also made it easy for people to learn it by themselves, and consequently there was a large pool of programmers who knew PHP, making it an interesting language from a hiring point of view. And that's how we ended up with piles of crappy, proprietary and OSS PHP code in the wild. The quality of the language is only a minor factor its success.