I'm a recent grad and my job is working with PHP. I had always heard and told jokes about PHP being old and washed up (my favorite what that it stands for "Pre

I'm a recent grad and my job is working with PHP. I had always heard and told jokes about PHP being old and washed up (my favorite what that it stands for "Pre Historic Programming"). Then I started using PHP. Some quirks I didn't like at first, and some I still don't love, but it really is a solid language. Funniest part is that I'm using 5.6 (we're working on migrating to 8). I'm so excited to get some of the more modern features too. It really is a solid language for web programming. If I were to work on a large scale web project on my own though, I'd probably still choose JS, Python, or Go, but PHP is a language that's won my respect.