The language changed a hell of a lot between 3 and 5 and between 5 and 8. It has improved markedly and while it still has it's warts modern PHP8 code is very d

The language changed a hell of a lot between 3 and 5 and between 5 and 8. It has improved markedly and while it still has it's warts modern PHP8 code is very different. However the ecosystem has absolutely matured alongside it as well, Symfony and Laravel are excellent general purpose frameworks, composer is an excellent package manager etc. It's what I write for my day job and while it'll never be my favourite language, it's a pleasant enough productive language and it pays the bills.