With a background in Java, both have bad codebases that is impossible to understand and maintain. That's because both have bad developers. Simple, but expensiv

With a background in Java, both have bad codebases that is impossible to understand and maintain. That's because both have bad developers. Simple, but expensive solution: Rewrite. PHP is not perfect, but it works, and gets better every year. So should the developers who use it, because it's a good choice usually.