It’s not cool. Even people who use PHP every day don’t want to admit it because it’s not considered leading edge. It’s a workhorse language with a mature ecosys

It’s not cool. Even people who use PHP every day don’t want to admit it because it’s not considered leading edge. It’s a workhorse language with a mature ecosystem, good documentation, and huge community, great for putting web sites together. It also gets used by a lot of newbs who write bad code, and the language gets blamed for that.