Whatever irritations I may have with current PHP-the-language (my biggest one is it's too easy to make string handling mistakes) are dwarfed by my irritations w

Whatever irritations I may have with current PHP-the-language (my biggest one is it's too easy to make string handling mistakes) are dwarfed by my irritations with that decrepit but incredibly popular PHP behemoth, WordPress. The spirit of early-days security-ignorant PHP lives on in WordPress, where proper security is basically impossible. You'll never be confident that you've found all the back doors after an incident.