I don’t love the design of the language, but it’s far from bad as a whole. It’s easy to critique, but hard to rival how easy it is to get things done with it.

I don’t love the design of the language, but it’s far from bad as a whole. It’s easy to critique, but hard to rival how easy it is to get things done with it. Also the php community has developed some of the nicest software I’ve used for creating web applications. I don’t use it anymore, but my years working with Symfony were very positive. Overall I’d say it’s a good language and a great community. I don’t personally want to go back to writing php, but I wouldn’t complain if I needed to. I think people remember how abysmal php was around 10 years ago. It was miserable.