There was an article about PHP that summarized some of its issues back in the day: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ https://eev.ee/bl

There was an article about PHP that summarized some of its issues back in the day: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ I think that it was excellently written and actually mentioned concrete issues, rather than vague personal dislikes. That is good, because you can revisit those in 10 years or so and see how many of those have been fixed in the actual language. Someone actually tried to address a few of those: http://maettig.com/2020-09-16-revisiting-a-fractal-of-bad-design http://maettig.com/2020-09-16-revisiting-a-fractal-of-bad-de...