The problem with PHP is not that you can't write great maintainable codebases in it -- you certainly can. The problem is how easy it makes it to write obscenel

The problem with PHP is not that you can't write great maintainable codebases in it -- you certainly can. The problem is how easy it makes it to write obscenely unmaintainable anti-architected code bases in it. The average PHP production code base is deeply offensive. I'm knee deep in one right now. You can still have awful code bases in Rails or Django or Go, but the opinionated nature of those ecosystems makes the average much better than PHP. If "PHP" were synonymous with "Laravel", that would be different. But it's not.