I've used PHP from 1998 to 2016. Things I remember I didn't like about/around PHP: - too many aspects of the language were dependent on config/php.ini. - it

I've used PHP from 1998 to 2016. Things I remember I didn't like about/around PHP: - too many aspects of the language were dependent on config/php.ini. - it had errors and exceptions. I just wanted exceptions. - was not very interesting/useful/great outside web backend. - mb_* functions were not enabled by default - it had no decent REPL. - "reference" libraries had bad APIs or were over-engineered. I'm not sure about the state of these issues now, but frankly I never felt the need to look back. Good to hear there's still progress though.