You can create a mess of code, open security holes, and/or be hit with ‘gotchas’ in any web framework Yes, but the holes and gotchas are worse when they are ba

You can create a mess of code, open security holes, and/or be hit with ‘gotchas’ in any web framework Yes, but the holes and gotchas are worse when they are baked into the language. The thing that Golang gets right, is that the developers are willing to eschew features to avoid gotchas. It's like other languages are sports cars with sexy lines and fancy features that everyone wants, but have to spend more time "in the shop." (An analogy for in the debugger.) Golang is more like a base model Toyota Corolla with a manual transmission. Not sure what PHP is like. Maybe some sort of modder car. Like Perl and Ruby, PHP grew by readily adding features in response to demand. In that way, it's the opposite of Golang. PHP is much less complex than most. That depends on what level you're looking at. PHP is one of those languages that has a lot of complexity baked into it in the form of language design warts. In order to make it a nimble language, you have to ignore/eschew parts of it, and stick to some "good parts."