I hate both. But to be fair I started hating JS 15 years ago when IE6 support was still important, and I haven't touched PHP in 10 years so it may have improved

I hate both. But to be fair I started hating JS 15 years ago when IE6 support was still important, and I haven't touched PHP in 10 years so it may have improved significantly. I'll still use either if I run into a proper use case for them.