I have a love/hate relationship with PHP but it has undeniably gotten better than its reputation would imply. That said, I think that regardless of the language

I have a love/hate relationship with PHP but it has undeniably gotten better than its reputation would imply. That said, I think that regardless of the language's continued improvements its reputation will continue to suffer simply because it IS so easy to write and deploy code. Any sufficiently popular and widely supported web language will be the most common entry point for new coders and entrepreneurs who learn just enough code to get that MVP out the door. They will blog about their successes and add to the the number of 'not serious' coders putting poor quality code out in the world. If Python or Go were this easy to deploy, we'd be see their reputations suffer as well.