PHP had design flaws (many of which have been addressed since the 5.x days), but what language doesn’t? A significant cause of it’s bad rap is touched on brief

PHP had design flaws (many of which have been addressed since the 5.x days), but what language doesn’t? A significant cause of it’s bad rap is touched on briefly in this article, Wordpress. Even back in 5.3 days, you could write elegant and scaleable code, it just took work to do. At a former employer using PHP 5.3 on 2005 era hardware, we could do 500+ req/sec per machine with an average response time under 100ms and a P99 response time of under 250ms, with a zero downtime SLA and hundreds of millions of requests per day. Yeah, it wasn’t easy, but it worked. As a dear friend used to say, PHP is a ball of nails. You throw it and it sticks. Just exercise care when picking it up and all is well.