PHP suffers from being old, like JavaScript and C. All of those have gained the capabilities to make them perfectly useable but retain approaches we would not b

PHP suffers from being old, like JavaScript and C. All of those have gained the capabilities to make them perfectly useable but retain approaches we would not build into a new language. Some developers consider that a smell they don't want to be associated with. Those who develop code will care, those who develop function will not.