I believe we are flaming PHP users because people remember the state of PHP from 2001. It was a great language for generating HTML to put around a MySQL query.

I believe we are flaming PHP users because people remember the state of PHP from 2001. It was a great language for generating HTML to put around a MySQL query. And has advanced from that. But people still remember it for what it lacks: Websocket support, sub-1-secod timers, namespace management, consistent class method call semantics, etc.