I would say PHP takes effort to make maintainable projects, and allowed some of the most heinous code I have ever seen in production. It was likely the years o

I would say PHP takes effort to make maintainable projects, and allowed some of the most heinous code I have ever seen in production. It was likely the years of spiral development that made it so problematic.. and pear finished the job. The good parts were a small memory footprint, fast soap/xml parser, and stateless finite execution. Unlike the 200MiB+ "hello world!" async nodejs standard popular today... one can run small php cms/wiki sites on budget servers.