Hey, I'm sorry. That's awful and wildly unfair. For what it's worth, this stranger on the internet does not believe that a real PHP developer is somehow incomp

Hey, I'm sorry. That's awful and wildly unfair. For what it's worth, this stranger on the internet does not believe that a real PHP developer is somehow incompetent. When I said the language is horrible and you shouldn't use it or promote its use, it's not a personal attack on anyone. Most of the devs (PHP or otherwise) I've ever met have only used a subset of the 5-6 most common languages: PHP, Java/C#, JavaScript, C, Python, C++. This includes very smart, very talented developers. So that has little to do with it. But if you haven't gotten to try Swift, Rust, Go, Elixir, Clojure, OCaml, etc, you just can't realize how bad PHP and Java are. But a PHP dev defending the language is definitely counter productive to the goal of looking knowledgeable about programming. The only positive thing I can say about the language is that it handles (non)nullable types better than Java. Java's nullable references might be the worst language design decision of all typed languages.