I am not saying that’s a metric of the language’s quality, nor am i saying that python is worse than php. What i am saying is that the offering of tools has ma

I am not saying that’s a metric of the language’s quality, nor am i saying that python is worse than php. What i am saying is that the offering of tools has matured in php - instead of a basic template engine like smarty you now have “advanced” templating engines, packages and so on. Python has less packages but that can also he because python packages work better and there is no need for an overwhelming number of packages. Regarding error handling that’s precisely one of the many issues with php. There are so many ways of doing the same thing that it becomes exhausting. And what many php devs do is they work around these issues either by endless hair splitting debates or a dubious amount of made up design patterns. You shouldn't use php, i am totally against it. I think it’s as bad as it can affect your mental health. Just saying that by comparison to it’s previous versions it has come a long way. However it does handle character encoding quite well and you can scale as much as you want to literally. Probably because thats too complex for the average php developer and it was left to core language developers which are pretty competent and experienced.