>COBOL, PHP, and FORTRAN all lack modern ecosystems (package managers, etc) which hinder them significantly. I think your PHP info is wrong, PHP has a package

>COBOL, PHP, and FORTRAN all lack modern ecosystems (package managers, etc) which hinder them significantly. I think your PHP info is wrong, PHP has a package manager named composer. So if you need to connect to amazon S3 amazon published a package (that does't depend on 100 leftpads) https://packagist.org/packages/aws/aws-sdk-php https://packagist.org/packages/aws/aws-sdk-php Maybe is not modern enoug in your opinion? Then what is missing except lefpad and color-red ?